Calypso is the school misfit. She’s been packed off to St. Augustine’s Boarding School for Ladies by her parents in America. It’s not just her accent that stands her apart from the posh sloanes in her year, there’s her fencing expertise too - and her only friend is Star, another social outcast and daughter of an eighties rock legend. The cool It Girls, Ladies and Hons, like Honey O'Hare and her clique, are making Calypso’s life miserable. She starts the summer term of Year Ten, determined to change all that - to launch Operation Cool. She plans to reinvent herself as a new worldly-wise and experienced-with-boys Calypso. The results are unexpected, effective and very entertaining, especially when Calypso receives some royal attention…
Calypso Kelly might have pulled Prince Freddie, heir to the British throne and fittest boy in the world, but life becomes a lot more complicated when her mad mother pitches up in England to ‘spend more quality time with her boodjie woodjie’. Apart from Calypso’s determination to make the national sabre team, sorting out her mad ‘rentals’, dealing with her eccentric friends and their security men, and making time for her prince, she’s got the queen of the psycho toffs, the not so Honourable Honey O'Hare breathing down her neck…
Dating Prince Freddie is bliss as far as Calypso Kelly is concerned. So when her friends at the posh St Augustine’s School for girls decide to chuck their boyfriends and concentrate on their studies, Calypso is horrified! But not nearly as horrified as when Freds dumps her, setting into motion a chain of events that leads to a school-wide plan for a royal Counter Dump. With her first international fencing competition coming up in Italy, and a captivating new boy showering her with attention, can Calypso pull it together and win her prince back? And even if she does, will she have the heart to dump him? All may be fair in love and war unless, of course, you’re in love with a prince.
