Her self-imposed goal of raising her House to its former glory through 'waking up' its indolent House captain makes this a school story with all the right ingredients.

    They got on well together, Deb and her House, but there was plenty of opposition to Devon. There are many interesting characters apart from Deb – Hilary the musician, Lucille who used blunt truth with effect, and the saucy Diana. How Deb helps the New House at Winwood to become recognised and established we lave to the reader to discover. The Girls Gone By Press edition comes with an introduction by Rex Johnson, a New Zealander who has spent years in researching Clare Mallory and sent us his findings.

    She moves from anxious child to respected history mistress at a girls’ high school, to university lecturer and writer. Thoroughly at home in her academic life, it is in her friendship with an older science teacher and her romance with a young doctor that tension arise and her ideals are tested.

    Both girls and politicians are after the hidden object..." - 9th December 1949 from the Tribune Magazine Archive.

    Mr Ratcliff, housemaster of the New House, causes much trouble among the footballers at a Soccer match with Harry Wharton and Co.; for which Arthur Augustus proposes to administer punishment.