Enid Blyton, prodigious polymath
CHILDREN’S writer Enid Blyton has to be admired for her prodigious output. According to the Enid Blyton Society, she wrote around 700 books at a rate of more than one a month.
Andy Boddington, however, has discovered that she appears even more prolific than her fans in the society have recognised. Not only did she write about the Famous Five, the Secret Seven and Naughty Children – according to the Amazon.co.uk website, she also found time for Gambols in Gastronomy and The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle. The latter is not the only example of…
