Barbara Stoney and her Biography of Enid Blyton

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Anita Bensoussane wrote: I was taken aback to learn that Enid Blyton had children at all as I had pictured her as an apple-cheeked spinster living alone in a little cottage, devoting her life to writing books, feeding the birds, baking gingerbread and chatting merrily to passing children over the garden gate!
This is exactly the sort of image I too formed about Enid from reading her books as a young child.
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