No Talking After Lights

Not normally the type of book I pick up but I was on holiday and had just finished the book I was reading and needed another and this was one of four left in the gite in which I was staying. The other three were much too "chick-lit" for me. It was a very easy fun read and adequate enough for a holiday read but I didn't get a great deal of satisfaction at the end.The story focuses on a new girl starting at a boarding school in the 1950s plus some focus on the personal lives of the teachers. I don't think the story could work out if it was meant to be a children's book or an adult's book. The schoolgirl segments took up the majority of the story and were in much the same vain and content of a St Clare's or Mallory Towers book that I might have read 20 years ago as a teenager. Intermingled were segments focusing on the teachers - but only on two of the teachers despite others being mentioned quite a bit - and this got into more adult themes of marriage and sexuality. The good thing about the mixing of children and adult story lines was that you could get a picture of what was happening in different peoples' lives at the same time knowing that the schoolgirls were oblivious to the adult's dramas.I wasn't quite sure where the story was going and it seems just to be a story about what happened during one school term (much like Mallory Towers/St Clare's) and the ending was disappointing. There was much too much focus on one particular storyline and I just wanted this done and dusted much sooner and the person to get their comeuppance. Fine for a holiday read but you may be left feeling a little unsatisfied.