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A review by sammy_
New Class at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton, Rebecca Westcott Smith, Lucy Mangan, Narinder Dhami, Patrice Lawrence
4.0
I adored the Malory Towers books as a child and came across this volume of four new short stories, each by a different author. The stories each centre on a new girl starting at the school, but otherwise Darrell, Gwendoline, Alicia et al are all present, and they’re all written in the spirit of the originals.
Obviously no new story is going to be quite the same, because it’s a) not Enid Blyton writing and b) not the 1940s. In some ways, that’s even a good thing ;) But I think it was clever of the publisher to ask four different authors to contribute a story: in that way, it doesn’t feel like someone is trying to impersonate Enid Blyton, but rather that each author is writing their own version of an Enid Blyton story. And this 32-year-old still thoroughly enjoyed them :D
Obviously no new story is going to be quite the same, because it’s a) not Enid Blyton writing and b) not the 1940s. In some ways, that’s even a good thing ;) But I think it was clever of the publisher to ask four different authors to contribute a story: in that way, it doesn’t feel like someone is trying to impersonate Enid Blyton, but rather that each author is writing their own version of an Enid Blyton story. And this 32-year-old still thoroughly enjoyed them :D