A review by ianbanks
Enid Blyton: The Biography by Barbara Stoney

4.0

In the hands of a less even-handed biographer, this could have been a hatchet-job on Ms Blyton. As it is, she emerges from it as quite self-absorbed (narcissism is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days but Blyton did genuinely care about others… just not as much as herself) but with a true artist’s soul: everything she experienced or witnessed was fodder for her work. It’s an engaging work and we do come away with some more knowledge of the writer but not - as the author says in her introduction - a profoundly deep awareness of her life. It is, however, sympathetic, shrewd and quite entertaining.