I loved Enid Blyton, her Wishing Chair stories, Magic Faraway Tree stories, fairy-land and toy-land stories as well as the mysteries.Ī couple of years later, I discovered The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. The mystery story was so exciting, I finished it in one session and I was a fast reader from that moment onwards. Reading was a slow process until one birthday, I sat down with my gift, a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. Sometimes there was a fat cat on a mat or dog with a ball. I remember the struggle to learn to read – painfully stringing three letter words together – there was Sam and Pam and a ball. As a dark-haired, tanned little English girl (remember Britain was at one stage occupied by the Romans), I was very different and mercilessly teased. I grew up in the Barossa Valley, an area of South Australia predominantly settled by German immigrants.
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