School for Skylarks

It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends and her parents have been at the center of a scandal. But with the house being used to accommodate an entire school of evacuated schoolgirls there''s no time to think about her old life. Soon there is a horse in a first-floor bedroom and a ferret in Lyla’s sock drawer hordes of schoolgirls have overrun the house and Lyla finds out that friends come in all shapes and sizes.