Anyone who read in the biographical note of
Looking For Enid that I was writing a book on Evelyn Waugh may be interested to know that
Evelyn! Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love will be publishd by Beautiful Books in September of this year. Despite the Blyton book selling about 8000 copies, it was a very hard slog to find a publisher to this 'follow up'. Alexander Waugh, Evelyn's grandson and very active on behaf of his grandfather's legacy, loves the book, as does the Secretary of the Evelyn Waugh Society, and I thought that with their enthusiastic endorsements getting a publisher would be easy. Not so! Still, I've got a good one in the end and for that I thank my lucky stars.
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I wonder if it's just me that admires the work of both of these very different writers!
Another beautiful thing to report. The blog I've been writing about my mother, who has dementia and lives in a care home, has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. This is thanks to Kate (who accompanies me on the research trips in both the Enid and the Evelyn books, and who will be known to those of you who have read
Looking For Enid). She encouraged me to write the blog for Saga in the first place, and to submit it for the political writing prize, even though its very much politics with a small p.
From this link you shoul be able to get to the blog itself:
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But that doesn't look as if it'll work, when I Preview it, so you could try 'Visiting Mabel' directly:
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Duncan
) on You Tube. It was a great series and perhaps remembered by those of us who were watching the FF on TV around the same time? Think it was shown around teatime on a Sunday, my Mum was a fan and I associate it with my grandparents visiting and afternoon tea (happy tiimes) 
.
, I didn't spend my entire childhood in front of the TV 
.) The title doesn't ring any bells, anyway. I'll have to check it out on YouTube sometime and see if I remember it (that sounds silly, but I'm sure you know what I mean!)
