Judy is a complete misfit at her boarding school. Shortly after WWII at the age of nine, she arrives, complete with school trunk and lacrosse stick, clutching Bruiny, her beloved bear. Life away from home is a rude awakening and Judy always seems to be in some trouble or another. This miscellany of memories will surely strike a chord with those old enough to remember their school days in the 1950s, and for younger readers maybe, give an insight of what it was like growing up in the post-war years when so many subjects were just not mentioned, and 'female things' were learnt from ones' peers who were equally ignorant.