This makes things worse for her as she worries about missing lessons and falling further behind.Ī feud develops between the two Mam’zelles.
As the term moves on, Ellen becomes increasingly irritable and unwell, and eventually has to spend eleven days in the sanatorium. Sally asks Jean to try and befriend Ellen and help her settle down, but her efforts are rejected. A running theme of the book is her increasing bad temper, caused by her worrying about succeeding at Malory Towers and overworking. Gwendoline, vain and snobbish as ever, claims her for a friend.Įllen is a scholarship girl. On the face of it she is pretty, charming and talks of having a very wealthy family. The reader is given an early hint that Daphne may not be all she seems. Her new schoolfriends, on the other hand, are delighted to discover Belinda’s talent for drawing, enabling her to trade many of her chores in return for caricatures of teachers. The novel revolves around Darrell and her friends and their day to day life in boarding school which focuses on obtaining good exam results and is also adventurous and enjoyable.Īs the Head Mistress Miss Greyling explains to the students, the school wants to produce good, strong women the world can lean on and these are the Malory Towers successes.Belinda turns out to be as much of a scatterbrain as Irene and the two are instantly drawn to each other, to the despair of their teachers. The spoilt child Gwendoline is as vain, pretentious and tiresome as she was the previous year and the sweet natured Mary Lou seems to have overcome her timidity. Alicia John who is brilliant in academics is disappointed when she is not made the head girl of the second from as anticipated. A girl named Irene who is a genius at music and a scatter brain has as usual forgotten her health certificate and is in trouble with the Matron.Ī new girl named Belinda who is a talented artist joins them in the second form and she and Irene become good friends as they are both scatter brains.
Darrell goes straight to the North Tower where she stays and reports to the house mistress and the Matron. The story begins with a description of Darrell being driven to Malory Towers by her parents who are sensible when they say good-bye and promise to come and see her at half term. Second Form at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton is the second book in the Malory Towers series and continues the story of the main character Darrell Rivers’ life in boarding school in England.
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