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Kingscote School for Girls is a fictional girls' boarding school, the setting of four of the novels in the Marlow series. The school is located in Wade Abbas – a fictional town elevated to city status by the presence of Wade
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Nicola, alone of Third Remove, makes a respectable showing in the end of term exams. However, the rest of the form are more than satisfied to have earned the epithet 'brilliant eccentrics' from one of the Sixth Form, if a little embarrassed to discover that through Nicola's efforts they have also
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