Typically Jennings
ISBN: 9780333496893
Description
Darbishire's tennis racket looked like an Eskimo's snowshoe after Jennings had run over it with a garden roller. Of course, it was all a mistake - Jennings was only trying to remove the bumps from the court.
The explosive school picnic and the problem of the trapped minibus were mistakes too - and they were not the only near-disasters that summer term at Linbury Court School.
Reviewed on 2nd August 2025
Jennings and Derbishire get up to their usual adventures in this boarding school novel from the 1970s (although my copy has the 1990s updates, one of which possibly got missed leading to an odd situation where lemonade turns into orange squash).
This time it all starts out when their tennis racquets are broken, which sets into play a sheep rescue, amongst other comedy twists.
I don't feel like this has retained all the magic of the early novels in the series, and shows perhaps more antagonism between the boys than usual.
