" In 1962, Francine Smithline—a schoolgirl from New York—wrote to C. S. Lewis, telling him how much she had enjoyed his Narnia books and asking him for information about his own schooldays. In reply, Lewis informed her that he had attended three boarding schools, “of which two were very horrid.”42 In fact, Lewis continues, he “never hated anything as much, not even the front line trenches in World War I. "
― Alister E. McGrath , C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet