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The Tower Room : Egerton Hall Trilogy 1 (Definitions)
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Megan, Bella and Alice inhabit the isolated world of a girl's boarding school, Egerton Hall, buried deep in the English countryside. The Tower Room which they share is remote and high, and from it the three survey the everyday drama of school life. With only months to go until their final exams they are already sensing the dangerous delights awaiting them in the grown-up world. Megan feels a special poignancy about leaving school; orphaned soon after she came to Egerton Hall, she has virtually been brought up there as the ward of the science mistress.But it is Megan who looks down from the Tower Room that unforgettable morning, to meet Simon's inquisitive gaze. As Megan rushes to embrace her fate, her safe, cocooned world is transformed forever . . .
Loosely based on the Rapunzel fairytale, this highly original novel is the story of a sudden, unexpected, passionate relationship and the unforseen yet inevitable results of defying convention.
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ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over twenty-five years ago and is the author of many titles for young readers, including one previous title for the Corgi Pups list Chalk and Cheese and the four Cats of Cuckoo Square titles for Young Corgi. Married with two daughters, she lives in Manchester.
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Format:Paperback
Megan, Bella and Alice share a tower-top room in a high class boarding school. Then someone invades her life. That someone, however,is the new lab assistant and science teacher. She falls in love with him and as we should all know, this is defying all morality. Adele Geras using a stunning technique of description to convery the intensity of Megan's feeling for her teacher, Simon. I recommend it. Top read.
Format:Hardcover
The Tower Room is the first in the Egerton Hall Trilogy, and centres on Megan, a modern Rapunzel. Orphaned, she is cared for by her guardian, the head of science at Egerton Hall boarding school. Megan shares the Tower Room with her two best friends, Bella and Alice, and much of the book is focused here, semi-isolated from the rest of the school.
It is while she is looking down from her high-up window that she first sees Simon, the new science teacher, and it is (of course) love at first sight. Their relationship develops, kept secret from the rest of the school.
This is another wonderful and moving book from Adele Geras, which touches gently on the themes of love, friendship and jealousy. Set in the very early sixties, after the post-war years and before the Beatles, there is a curious mixture of old-fashioned innoncence and the beginnings of rock'n'roll. Although it is a retelling of the old fairy story, it is strong enough to stand alone - suffice to say that the first couple of times I read it, I didn't even realize that it had anything to do with Rapunzel! All the characters are very well-portrayed, and Geras negotiates the difficulties of modernising such an unrealistic tale admirably. It makes one realise that however old you are, there is nothing quite so satisfying as a beautifully told fairy story.
Format:Paperback
What a beautiful book. Megan's life at boarding school in the seventies is portrayed wonderfully, and her unrequited passion for the science assistant is painfully familiar. Clearly the best of the trilogy and a book that would enchant any age of reader.
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Definitely not her best...
Out of all the books Adele Geras has written I think this series is her weakest. It is, by and large, a 'teenage romance', but probably at the better end if you like that sort of... Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2002 by Ra Me
A brilliant, serious and light read
Bella, Alice and Megan all share the Tower Room. One day she looks down and see's Simons' gaze. They can not forget about each other that lightly so they arrange to meet every so... Read more
Published on 16 April 2001
An enthralling story about a girl who falls in love.
This is an enthralling story about a girl who is at an all-girls boarding school and falls in love with her science teacher. Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2001
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