The grandson of Lola Oslow, who was an illustrator for Blyton and worked with her most notably on Book of Fairies, has claimed that she had an affair with the author (pictured).
Like Carrie, Ophelia grew up in a single parent household in west London. The women, born just two years apart, both went to fee-paying schools only half a mile apart.
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