A review by bluestarfish
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

3.0

Sallie McBride is cajoled into running the orphanage Judy Pendelton (nee Abbot) grew up in and sets about bringing love and life to the orphanage and being mother to 107-113 children along the way. It's an epistolary sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs and in some ways is far more entertaining, as the trials and tribulations of a socialite getting stuck into institutional life where everything can and does go wrong are related alongside the wonderful and funny things that happen. It's the contemporaneous preoccupation with hereditary social ills and eugenics that are far less palatable.

I think I must've read this in Finnish first time round as I don't remember all the Scottish dialect peppered around.