Who was Enid Blyton? There are conflicting stories, even from
her own children about this world famous author of children’s
book. One view was she was lovely and a good parent, the other
that she was horrible and cared more for her imaginary children
than her own. One of the strange things that seems to back up
the option that she did not really understand or like children,
in close proximity at least; was the way, in many, many of her
novels that the children did not often interact with their
parents. Either they went to boarding school or on a voyage or
on trips or any where the parents were not! The parents
themselves were mostly very extreme and I quote two descriptions
from Enid Blyton herself: ’Good sports’ or ‘Dripping with
diamonds.’ In the last comment, the mother was shown to have
more money than common sense. Enid always seemed to go from one
extreme to the other, there was no middle way. The part parents
played in the books with the children was tiny; a line or two,
throughout the whole book. One