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Rhiannon

A Boarding School Servant

Charlotte Ryton

KEY SELLING POINTS

Historical fiction that follows a young girl as she struggles to come to terms with leaving her life as a
schoolgirl to be a maid and servant.
Chalet School series link
Set during the Second World War and aimed at children aged 9-11 years.
Gives the servant maid a voice, instead of the typical pupil/teacher narrator in school stories.

1938. Rhiannon is a happy scholarship student at a High School in Cardiff. But when times become hard, she is
forced to leave school and work as a nursery and kitchen maid.

The war begins and her home, workplace, and all she knows are blown to pieces. As a result, she has to go to
work as a maid at the Chalet School in the country. Rhiannon is surrounded by schoolgirls, no cleverer than her,
learning and playing while she toils from 5am to 10pm.

When she borrows a book from the school library, to get her First Class Badge, she is accused of stealing and
is told the books ‘are for young ladies not for the likes of you’. But when a schoolteacher insists on helping her,
she gets to study with the Royal Society of Arts and gets the opportunity to join a local Guide Company.

But things become tricky when Rhiannon’s best friend comes to the Chalet School as a pupil. Can pupils and
servants be friends, or is the divide between the rich and poor too wide?

Will Rhiannon get the chance to prove to those around her that being a maid is just as good and important as
being a pupil?

Charlotte Ryton worked as a maid in a boarding school before attending University. She then went on to teach
in various schools and wrote historical plays. She was involved in the productions of Daughters of Jerusalem,
Katherine the Queen (which she wrote with her father, Royce Ryton) and Sergeant Daisy. Charlotte lives in
Hampshire and Rhiannon is her first book published with Troubador Publishing.

Publication Date: 28th March 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805142805
Thema subject category: YFT – Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 312 pp Portrait Author location: Hampshire
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