Angela Brazil

The Luckiest Girl in The School Angela Brazil

Winona Woodward lives at home with her widowed mother and her siblings but with the war on, times were difficult and her mother could ill afford to keep the house going. So Mrs Woodward arranges for Winona to go and stay with her Aunt Harriet who arranges for her to take the scholarship examination for Seaton High School. She fears that she might flunk the examination but her knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe and Lady Jane Grey help her to win a scholarship and she duly attends Seaton High. There she joins the Debating Club, the Patriotic Knitting Guild and the Dramatic Society and Literary Association and meets girls such as Garnet Emerson, Hilda Langley, Marjorie Kaye, Olave Parry and Joyce Newton. At first the girls find it difficult to accept Winona as she is a scholarship girl but once they get to know her, they all become the best of friends.