Lamarie's Shrine to The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey!

The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey was Louise Rennison's second series, a three-book spinoff to her very successful first series, Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. I read Withering Tights when I was 10 or 11, when my older sister borrowed it from the school library while she and I still shared a room. I didn't read the next two until I started high school myself, but when I did I was very quickly hooked on the antics Tallulah and her mates got up to, and reread all three quite often. I got a hold of the ebooks eventually, and read them daily on the half-hour bus ride to and from school. I honestly couldn't count how many times I've read this series, and even now as an adult I pick them up every now and then when I want the comfort of knowing exactly what comes next.

Withering Tights

Published in 2010

Wow. This is it. This is me growing up. On my own, going to Performing Arts College. This is good-bye, Tallulah, you long, gangly thing, and hellooooo, Lullah, star of stage.

Tallulah Casey is ready to find her inner artist. And some new mates. And maybe a boy or two or three.

The ticket to achieving these lofty goals? Enrolling in a summer performing arts program, of course. She's bound for the wilds of Yorkshire Dales—eerily similar to the windswept moors of Wuthering Heights. Tallulah expects new friends, less parental interference, and lots of drama. Acting? Tights? Moors? Check, check, check.

What she doesn't expect is feeling like a tiny bat's barging around in her mouth when she has her first snog.

Tallulah Casey is a young Irish girl who accidentally signed up to a theatre school in Yorkshire to get away from her family. She quickly makes her first real friends among her classmates, but her time in Yorkshire is not without strife. Much like her cousin Georgia, she also ends up with an interesting and at times frustrating love life.

A Midsummer Tights Dream

Published in 2012

Hold on to your tights! Tallulah Casey is back and ready to Irish-comedy-dance her way through another term at Dother Hall, but now that she's been officially admitted to the performing arts program, that won't cut it anymore. Especially if she's going to help raise enough money to keep the school from closing at the end of the year.

There are also some ... distractions to worry about: The boys of Woolfe Academy are lingering about. And they are still boys, so they are still confusing.

Will Tallulah be able to test out her new snogging skills and ace her performance in this term's project, A Midsummer Night's Dream? Only time and more Irish comedy dancing will tell.

Now a student of the full course, Tallulah is back for her first full term at Dother Hall. This time they're performing A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the magic and myth of the play entrance Tallulah, despite the hardship Dother Hall goes through.

The Taming of the Tights

Published in 2013

In The Taming of the Tights, the third book in the (Mis)Adventures of Tallulah Casey series, Tallulah and her mates are back to finish their winter term at the Dother Hall performing arts program. And Tallulah is determined to finally show the world she’s a true star of the stage!

Out of the spotlight, Tallulah’s life is filled with just as much drama. She’s distracted by bad-boy Cain and trying her best to keep her accidental snog-session with him a secret. And although she is slowly beginning to think that maybe he’s not so bad after all, she also continues to wonder about unavailable Charlie and dreamy Alex. Who would make the perfect leading man?

Tallulah is back at school again after half term, and the tree sisters are one girl down. The play they've been assigned to perform is The Taming of the Shrew, which leads to Tallulah having some truly odd dreams.

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The artist who drew the chapter header images for the first two books (some of which I've used here on this page) is Karen Donnelly.

The official Georgia Nicolson site is no longer around, but you can find an archived version here.

How to make any twit fall in love with you

This short story was originally serialised over ten days, starting on the 3rd of March 2011. It took place between Withering Tights and A Midsummer Tights Dream, and it was from Georgia's perspective. It showed Tallulah's summer holiday visit to Georgia's, and the advice Georgia gave her.

I found on the archived Georgia Nicolson website and copied it so I could format it into an ePub you can download here, and a plaintext version you can read in your browser here. It was also serialised on its own, separate site, but I didn't find that until recently. You can read it as it was originally posted here.

Dother Hall

Welcome to Dother Hall. This magnificent center of the performing and visual arts nestles among the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.
The staff and friendly local people offer a warm hand of encouragement to all of our prospective students.

Dother Hall is described as a magnificent edwardian building that is all but crumbling down around the students. It is literally on fire when Tallulah first lays eyes on it, but its dilapidated charm grows on her as time goes by.

Woolfe Academy

Woolfe Academy is a strict all-boys boarding school that aims to rehabilitate delinquents into functional members of society. Most of the boys there have done something to get kicked out of a previous school, but it's implied some (namely the posh trevs) are there by choice too.

Heckmondwhite

Heckmondwhite has its own “zany” cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Heckmondwhite doesn't quite live up to the description Tallulah's little brochure gives her, with a grand total of two businesses - a pub and the village shop. The locals mostly view the girls who attend Dother Hall as twits, and the girls of the village in particular have it out for the students.