Let's explore the spooky atmosphere of a mysterious electric typewriter that torments the life of a secretary...
"She started at it in horrified bewilderment. What had happened? What had she done? Not even on her first day at the Belmont Secretarial College had she made such ridiculous mistakes. Such strange mistakes-QWERTYUIOP, the top line of letters on a typewriter, repeated over and over again!"
A British author who wrote modern, original fiction for learners of English and also children’s books.
She was born in Worthing, West Sussex in England, but when she was aged 10, her family moved to Devizes in Wiltshire.
She studied at the Oxford School of Art but left in 1942 to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
She was married to novelist Leon Garfield whom she met during World War II when she was an ambulance driver.
She wrote more than 20 books in the next 20 years, through which she became widely admired for her gift for blending fantasy and reality and a particular understanding of the inner feelings of teenagers.
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