My mother, Molly Goodland, who has died aged 96, wrote vivid descriptions of life on Exmoor in the rural south-west of England.
For many decades, her time was devoted first to looking after children and then to caring. Only later in life was she able to find time for writing, and she described her 1930s childhood movingly and perceptively in Growing Wild on Exmoor, published under her maiden name, Molly Richards, in 2007.
