A review by extemporalli
Claudine at School by Colette

5.0

Who started reading the complete Claudine after watching Keira Knightley flounce around in Colette, hiiii yep it's me. This fin-de-siecle school story about noisy, wild and untamed Claudine was a lot of fun and I loved it - gimme a girl who is extremely gay and extremely spoilt and give her to me now! Even the teacher-student intrigues (which you normally probably couldn't get me to touch with a ten-foot pole) were made extremely palatable by Claudine's complete disregard for the rules and the fact that she always comes out on top. Think Anne of Green Gables in the novel's love of nature and its depiction of intense female friendship, but 100% more gay and naughty. Be gay and do crimes, indeed.