This was a very fine read that follows a few friends through the years, beginning and remaining mostly at the Blindefellows school and ending on a very personal note at the end.

It's rather charming, through and through. :)

I frankly found the characters a hoot and the evolving nature of the private school, its history and how it changes through the years, a character in itself. It was great to see the students rebel in order to get heat and better food. :) I loved the problem of the sheep and the eventual solution. It's also one hell of a cool tale when it comes to drawing out the feel of the times and how it affected everything in the school, from allowing women to work or later to even attend, to how the school makes its money, to the blossoming of a wonderfully restored institution. :)

This is where the other characters really get their own say, too, fully intertwined and interlinked.

It's a light tale, and just as the title says, it's a Chronicle. A passage through time. Quite delightful, cleverly written, and just plain fun. :)

Thanks goes to the author for a copy of this fine and heartwarming novel. ( )

Thank you so much to this author for sending me a copy of this book. I've never read anything like this, so it was very unique to me. I found it to be fascinating! So many stories - so many characters - a challenge! ( )

A quirky, charming, diverting entertainment. Roe is an adept writer at the sentence level, and while the episodic nature of the narrative makes it challenging at times to maintain narrative tension, there is an emotional resonance that builds with the passage of time. The title "chronicle" is an apt description of the temporal progress of the narrative, and there is also, somewhat surprisingly, some wonderfully diverse settings. The conclusion is satisfying and brings a sense of emotional heft to the proceedings.

Many thanks to the author for providing a review copy of this book. ( )

This delightful collection of interconnected stories follows the lives, loves, triumphs and tragedies of the teachers of Blindefellows School beginning in the mid 1970s through to 2014. Gems include the seismic shift when the first Matron is added to the staff, the reticent bachelor who finds himself engaged after enjoying a particularly fine roast beef dinner, the brilliant plan to save the school's flock of buck-toothed sheep and the declining years of many of the teachers as they find themselves resident of the same seniors residence. There are all types of characters both sympathetic and unpleasant. Although set in contemporary times there is an old-fashioned appeal to these tales that I really enjoyed. ( )