You’re spending your school holidays (the school isn’t named, but, as we keep being told that it’s near Brighton, it’s presumably Roedean) in the Bernese Oberland, where, having sorted out your sister’s love life (after her estranged boyfriend just happened to show up in the same place) and some random woman’s marriage, you climb a glacier – wearing your Guide uniform, as you never wear anything else. You and your friend get lost in the fog, and take shelter in one of those huts which are always so conveniently placed in Switzerland and Austria, but two lads are in there already. Are they Swiss? No. They’re two Etonians on holiday, and the uncle of one of them is mates with your sister’s new fiance. Of course. Luckily, you and your friend are carrying a huge picnic basket, so you share all the food. Then, when the fog clears, you carry on climbing. That’s just one part of the book, but you get the general idea.
I think that we’re *meant* to find the “irrepressible” Pippa irritating, with her constant minding of other people’s business, her complete failure to see her faults as pointed out by other people and her bizarre insistence on wearing her Guide uniform wherever she goes, but the book was actually very entertaining in a totally OTT jolly spiffing sort of way! And it only cost me £1, and it was certainly worth £1.
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They do actually have plenty of conveniently-placed huts in Austria and Switzerland, as they do in Scotland, where they are called bothies. The ones with shepherds in them (in the Alps, not the Cairngorms or Grampians!) quite often sell milk and cheese to passing tourists, though whether or not they taste of onions I have no idea!
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I suspect that those Pippa books (there are four of them) may have a cult following; a bit like Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’, etc. It was a different world then – mainly pre-WW2. How times have changed!
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Just pondering whether or not to blow £4.50 on a copy of one of the others which I’ve found on eBay!
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I suggest you buy it, read it, insert a commentary, and re-sell it on eBay. You could make a profit!
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This sounds hysterical, unintentionally perhaps but good fun anyway. Your review made me smile, thank you!
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