Fiona Williams’ piece (What Enid Blyton and Brambly Hedge don’t tell you about being Black in the British countryside, 19 January) is an interesting addition to the small but growing literature addressing this subject, to which I myself made some small contribution in my 2017 novel The Lie of the Land.
However, had she read the second of Lucy M Boston’s children’s novels, The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958), she would have found a searing depiction of racism in rural East Anglia.
