Looking for Enid

Duncan McLaren

RRP: £15.99

Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS

Publication Date : 27/09/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A strikingly inventive and unusual portrait on Enid Blyton, the most successful English writer for children until J.K. Rowling. Playing off Blyton's own style, McLaren at times takes imaginative leaps into her worldview, but always with an unconventional enthusiasm for her books. A new, animated version of "The Famous Five" hits TV screens in 2008.

Publisher's description:

Enid Blyton gave us the "Famous Five" and "Fatty's Find-Outers", the "Enchanted Wood" and the "Wishing Chair". Some of us, encouraged by austere critics, have pretended no longer to want what Enid gave. Suitable for those willing to acknowledge that Enid Blyton once mattered, this work investigates what made Enid, Enid.

ISBN: 9781846271151