![]() ![]() ![]() Dillian’s father’s mother, Marsali MacKellaig, left the island of Skye to work as a maid in Glasgow and married an Englishman. There is also a family connection to Skye. This is all anathema to the order of things at Dillian’s beloved High School. The school, Dundonay House, has ‘progressive’ tendencies, with few rules and the girls run things for themselves, leading on the formulation of their individual timetables. You come to assume that it was because they wanted to shake her out of her set ways and give her the resilience to face and adapt to what life might throw at her. ![]() In their wisdom, her parents decide to send her to a boarding school in Skye, partly for her health, without discussing it with her. Dillian Harvie – the first name is a new one on me and weirder than the book acknowledges – is aged fourteen and well established at her high school, but has had a bad bout of influenza. I didn’t realise that the title was a play on the song ‘Over the Sea to Skye’ until I read the book. Over the Sea to School: Mabel Esther Allan. ![]()
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