Sent against her will to a Scottish boarding school, Melanie is resentful and bitter towards her parents and is feeling rather sorry for herself when her mother puts her on the train which will take her to her new school, but these feelings are replaced by shock and horror during the journey when she witnesses the dreadful Miss Crabbe whacking the bare bottoms of some badly behaved girls with her infamous tawse. It seems corporal punishment is an active component of boarding school life, and Mel wonders how she will ever survive it. But survive she does, transitioning from a gauche fourteen-year-old to a more mature eighteen... someone who is proud to be an Abercrombie girl, someone who takes her whacks stoically and benefits from the disciplinary regime. A must for all lovers of the schoolgirl spanking genre, this book portrays the experiences of a teen girl facing the challenges of a new life: making friends, getting into mischief, accepting responsibility, learning the value of camaraderie and regular, painful, bare bottomed discipline.