THERE ARE VERY FEW BORN STORY-TELLERS. K.M. PEYTON IS ONE OF THEM' The Times

Kathleen M Peyton is a top-selling author of more than thirty novels, the best-known of which is FLAMBARDS which, with its sequels, was made into a TV serial. She lives in Essex with her husband.

My daughter and I are reading some of your books. You are one of the best writers of horse stories that I've found. I am a horseperson and am quite critical of that kind of writing. My daughter is also a horseperson. She is one of six kids and is the only horseperson in the bunch. She played horse, wrote horse stories and drew horses, so three years ago I got her a pony. Before then, the horses had been my obsession and my mothers.

This same daughter is also a musician. We read Pennington's Last Term. She understands about the music. Her first year was spent in a Chinese orphanage and she, like Pennington, has an intense, and at times angry, personality.

I'm glad you have written so many books. I can find the out of print ones on-line.

Thank goodness for discarded library books!

Sharon Reagan

Hello!

I just want to tell you that I and all my girs love to read Flambards

all three books!

I have read them a several times and I enjoy it very very much!

I have a question that I and my three children share:

"Flambards divided"do we read as a different book, none of us can

believe that this is the right continuing, we so would like to have an

alternative go on for this girl from Flambards. When I read and read

about how she decide that Mark is to brutal and thinks so different I

can´t accept that she divorce Dick and marries Mark. He is so suitable

to Dorothy. Of course people change, but what the girl from Flambards

feel for Dick can never change like this!

We would love to read a new book where the future is more logical to how

we learn to know the persons through the other three books.

I really love Christina and I hope she is so faithful to Dick and loves

Mark only as a sister!!!

Dick can change and become a person who fits in to a new world, becaus

the old world is not coming back!!

greetings from one o your readers

Eva Furehill

Dear KM Peyton/ Kathleen ( I don't know what to call you in an email!)

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite author is, I say that you are. I'm still in love with Patrick Pennington, even though I've been married very happlily for nearly 25 years!

I've written and published a story called Midnight on Lundy (it's just been reviewed on the Jane Badger Books website, on her blog) and it would give me great pleasure to send you a copy because you have given me such pleasure stories. Where should I send it?

All best wishes,

Victoria Eveleigh

www.tortoise-publishing.co.uk

Hi there!

Have been a HUGE fan of your books since I was 11 or so (Will not tell you how old I am now!) and love your newer books as well as Flambards! I'm fortunate enough to be a librarian in a school which has enabled me to share my well loved tenn books with others. Am DELIGHTED to find that you are still writing and read your newer books as avidly and with as much enthusiasm as the old! Just wanted to say 'thank you!!!'

Nikki Heath :)