“Blyton wrote more than 800 books in her 50-year career – 37 of them in 1951 alone, during which productive peak she was estimated to be churning out about 10,000 words a day. Blyton was a one-woman mass production line, turning out workman-like units to serve a particular need at a particular time in a child’s life, not finely wrought pieces of art destined to have their secrets delicately unpicked over the years by a gradually maturing sensibility.”