An insight into The Six Bad Boys by Enid Blyton: Tom and Bob both wish they had a happy settled family like the Mackenzies next door, and as they spend more time away from their unhappy homes, they discover ‘The Four Terrors’ and their secret hideout. But trouble soon comes their way when they join the gang.
Three friends from different families live next door to each other and go to the same school. When two of the boys join a gang that meets in a cellar under a derelict house, they soon find that trouble is not far behind.
Enid Mary Blyton (1897 – 1968) was an English author of children’s books. Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher’s School, Beckenham, and – having decided not to pursue her music – at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
