![]() ![]() ![]() I identified with both books, and especially the latter – its heroine, Elnora, was an awkward outsider, poor and finding it hard to fit in. ![]() I was attracted by the fun and excitement of this other world, though those who have actually been to boarding school are quick to disabuse me.Īnne of Green Gables was a favourite of mine, along with another, less well-known book, A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter, set in the Limberlost Swamp, in Indiana. ![]() I also had an unlikely fondness for boarding school novels such as the Malory Towers series. Fatty was a ventriloquist and master of disguise! Detective novels are still one of my favourite genres – a way to relax. I read the Nancy Drew mysteries, as well as Enid Blyton’s Famous Five and her lesser-known Five Find-Outers stories with Fatty – Frederick Algernon Trotteville – as the leader. I have read it again as an adult and still enjoyed it. It was a fairy story with clearly identifiable ‘goodies and baddies’. One favourite when I was young was Borrobil by William Croft Dickinson, with its memorable cover. This brought me out just above the library (where I also learned to swim: Park Baths was on the same site). I progressed to Park Library on Duke Street: I used to nip over the waste ground beyond the ‘rec’ at the end of Boundary Road, Wybourn. ![]()
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