The birthday burglar & A very wicked headmistress
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Summary
In ‘A very wicked headmistress’, Tatiana Taffeta runs a boarding school for the spoilt daughters of the very rich. She marries a rich farmer, Fendalton Bassett. But he has one fault - he keeps falling in love with other women.… So Tatiana decides to do something about it ... with the help of some very sticky custard, some sparkling diamonds and some very clever schoolgirls. In ‘The birthday burglar’, although Bassington is a boy with everything he could wish for, including an island of his own and a butler to look after him, he is bored. He realises that he has never had a birthday so he resolves to steal other people's birthdays - he becomes a birthday burglar. 1984.