Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties recording this episode, so it is slightly shorter than usual.


Quick correction: Nesbit’s relationship doesn’t seem to have been poly. It has been described as an open relationship, but her husband Hubert Bland’s affairs don’t seem to have been with her consent.


Nesbit Five Children and It. My edition is the Puffin Classics one published in 2008, with the foreword by Quentin Blake, but really poor-quality reproductions of illustrations.

Hilary McKay The Time of Green Magic MacMillan’s Children’s Books.


Daisy May Johnson’s wonderful book How To Be Brave


Daisy’s blog, with links to her other social media