num_pages: 255
description: When Hilary Fane’s father is killed, lack of money forces her to leave St Ursula’s, her first-class boarding school, to live with her insensitive and snobbish Cousin Beatrice. Even worse, she has to become part of the new Sixth Form at Uffington High School, which has only been in existence for once term and includes girls like the vulgar and undisciplined Edna Norris. Hilary is thrilled to find that an old St Ursula’s girl, Judith Wingfield, has been appointed as a teacher, but their friendship has to face difficulties. Hilary needs all her grit and determination, as well as new friends, in the struggle to make Uffington High School ‘the best school of all’.
language: English
title: The New School and Hilary
publisher: Girls Gone By Publishers