She assumes that Zerelda is playing the part for laughs, and she tells her off good and proper.Īs far away as Zerelda as it is possible to get is Bill, horse-mad, cropped-hair new girl who arrives at school on horseback with seven brothers. Although Zerelda thinks she is an actress because she has gone all temperamental and thrown a book at a fourth former, drama mistress Miss Hibbert is not impressed. She wants to play Juliet in the form play, and has been practising in the music rooms, complete with curtain wrapped about her and an adoring Gwendoline. She settles in there better than might be expected, as she is good-natured and kind, although she drives the girls mad with her constant refrain of 'When I'm a famous actress.' (The girls, rather unfairly, tell her that she must learn to speak properly first-twenty, not twenny, Zerelda!).Īlas, in the chapter 'Zeralda's Unfortunate Rehearsal', Zerelda is quickly disillusioned of her acting ability. Older than Darrell, Zerelda is placed in the fourth form, where the amount of order marks she receives for inappropriate hair and poor work soon enrage the sensible fourth. This seems like it might not be a problem. Well! Darrell resolves to have as little to do with her as possible. She tells Zerelda about the girls, the mistresses, the four towers, the gym-and Zerelda has fallen asleep.

Darrell is almost speechless when she sees the apparition that is Zerelda Brass (what a great name)-hair piled in a role on top of her head, nails polished, and is she actually wearing lipstick! So tell me about this school of yours, Zerelda drawls from the back of the car, and Darrell duly obliges. Zerelda is the newest addition to Malory Towers, and is collected by Darrell's father on the way to school. There aren't many Americans in her books, but the few that are there are a bit.well, there's Sadie in St Clare's, obsessed with hair and nails Junior in the Famous Five, spoilt and whiny.and Zerelda. Third Year at Malory Towers Review by Laura Canning (February 2, 2005)Įnid Blyton seems to have a Thing about Americans (and the French, and.but let's not go there).

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