“Fourteen Fourteens”, by Violet M. Methley

Methley, Violet M. Fourteen Fourteens. London: Thomas Nelson, No Date. Print.

This is an old hardcover book that has been in my collection for years.  It’s a quick, un-challenging read that I can be done with inside of an hour.  It’s a typical English school-girl book, full of plucky, spirited girls getting into scrapes.  The wrinkle is that all the girls are fourteen years old and named Margaret – but there is a reason for that, revealed along with the solution to a “mystery” that the girls mostly make up themselves.

It’s a sweet book written for girls, but hardly a classic.  I like the description of the girls, the school/house, and their teachers.  Although there is no date, I would guess from the descriptions that it’s from the 1920’s.

Oddly, the cover of the book gives the author’s name as “Methly”, although the cover page says “Methley”.  A search of the InterWebs seems to confirm “Methley”.