![]() ![]() It’s so enclosed and cut off from the world that it seems like secrets are going on there, and you just want to know what’s happening.” ![]() “I was expecting more midnight feasts and pranks, and it was a little more like real life.” Why does she think boarding school settings have always appealed to readers? “There’s something fantastic about a boarding school setting. “ was great, I really enjoyed it, but it wasn’t exactly like Enid Blyton,” she laughs. Thanks to her father, who passed on his childhood favourites, 31-year-old Stevens grew up reading Enid Blyton’s Mallory Towers and St Clare’s school stories before heading off to boarding school herself. ![]() The stories are essentially a mixture of two beloved genres: the golden age murder mystery and the classic boarding school story. Over the course of seven books Daisy and Hazel have solved murders in their school, a country house, a Cambridge college, a theatre, Hazel’s native Hong Kong and even on the Orient Express. Set in the 1930s, the books follow the adventures of youthful detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, who are both pupils at Deepdean School for Girls. And it hooked me for life.” Now it’s Stevens herself who is introducing younger readers to the joys of an unpredictable whodunnit, as the author of the wildly popular and hugely entertaining Murder Most Unladylike series. “I really wasn’t expecting the twist that’s in that book. ![]() It was Agatha Christie’s groundbreaking 1926 novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. When Robin Stevens was twelve years old she read a book that would ultimately change her life. ![]()
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