Enid Blyton (BBC last night)...

[Bbbananas]

... what a heartless selfish old cowbag. She spent her life devoted to making other people's children happy and entertained, yet was such a cold neglectful mother herself. How weird. Self-obsessed and horridly selfish.
Brilliant portrayal and acting from Helena Bonham-Carter.
This should be in tv perhaps, but cannot be @rsed to write it all out again.
Anyone else watch it?

[jackthehat]

Apart from the 'other' daughter paints a far nicer picture of her mother.............

[Bbbananas]

Oh. Didn't know that. It would be interesting to see an adaptation of her version then - which one was behind this one - older or younger daughter? (I suspect younger).

[jno]

it is in TV

http://www.theanswerb...V/Question878212.html

[ethandron]

the older one died a few years ago, it was the younger one who was involved in this film. it was good wasn't it? helena bonham-carter was great. i googled 'enid blyton' after the film finished, fascinating, and i believe the film was pretty accurate as to what she was really like. apparently, the older daughter was the favourite and treated very differently.

[jackthehat]

The programme was first broadcast last November and there was a least one thread that discussed it then. Here is a comment that jno made on that thread)
.........< apparently it's all true. However, her two daughters have both written memoirs about her, and they disagree; the older daughter is much fonder of her than the younger. (There was quite a few years' difference in their ages, which may explain this.) So it's possible that the TV prog could have used the same facts and yet made her out to be a nicer person. >

[Bbbananas]

Pardon me for repeating ;-)

[jackthehat]

I think you're entitled to make comments on something you've only just seen, Salla :o) I thought I'd c&p a comment rather than the link as it seems less dismissive, in the first instance.