My first ever memory of reading was the Noddy series of books by Enid Blyton. The
excitement when my mother came home with another tale of the adventures
of Noddy and Big Ears; at first reading them to me and, in time, being
able to read them myself, back to back, over and over again.
With time came The Naughtiest Girl at the School, Mallory Towers and St Claire's, filled with such exciting stories of what school life could be like; full of adventures, midnight feasts, tuck boxes and girls called Gwendoline. The Adventure Series was my favourite. I simply could not - and certainly did not want to - put them down.