When two new girls arrive at a Swiss boarding school on the same day, their strikingly similar names—one Welsh-Canadian, one American—seem to mark them as kindred spirits from the start. Thrown together by circumstance in an international school perched high in the Alps, the pair forge an unlikely bond across the divide of age and form, discovering shared tastes, shared roots, and a surprising secret about their family histories. Life at the school is never dull. A celebrated young musician lies gravely injured at the nearby sanatorium. A mischievous cat gets herself stuck in a ventilator. A funicular railway stalls halfway up a Swiss mountain with the girls inside. A midnight fire threatens to cancel the most eagerly awaited pantomime of the year. Through every misadventure—some funny, some genuinely perilous—the two new girls learn what it means to belong, to be responsible, and to discover that friendship can have deeper roots than anyone expected. Warm, witty, and steeped in the traditions of a beloved series, this late entry in a long-running saga captures the full flavor of a unique fictional world: its multilingual classrooms, its dramatic Alpine setting, and its gallery of vividly drawn characters both young and old.