K.M. Peyton

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K.M. Peyton


Born
in Birmingham, England, The United Kingdom
August 02, 1929

Died
December 19, 2023

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Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton MBE, who wrote primarily as K. M. Peyton, was a British author of fiction for children and young adults

Average rating: 4.03 · 10,581 ratings · 877 reviews · 109 distinct worksSimilar authors
Flambards (Flambards, #1)

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Blind Beauty

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The Edge of the Cloud (Flam...

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Flambards in Summer (Flamba...

4.05 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 1969 — 24 editions
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Flambards Divided (Flambard...

3.85 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 1982 — 17 editions
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Snowfall: A Novel of Secret...

3.91 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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Fly-by-Night (Ruth Hollis, #1)

4.26 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1968 — 20 editions
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Pennington's Last Term (Pen...

4.15 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1970 — 15 editions
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The Beethoven Medal (Pennin...

4.27 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1974 — 15 editions
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Flambards: Trilogy

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“Life was like that. Everyone loved the wrong person who loved someone else or didn’t love at all.”
K.M. Peyton, Snowfall: A Novel of Secret Loves, Hidden Lives, and British Class Divisions For Children

“It suits here now to forget last year, but she'll never make me forget last year, not if I live to be a hundred. I didn't know much then. I know now that there's people like her who want to be friendly for what you do, not what you are.”
K.M. Peyton, The Beethoven Medal

“With her hair and freckles she was dark gold like the bracken on the slope behind her; she fitted. He stared past her into the water of the lake, and saw it was very clear, and deep; sunlight coming through the trees sent spears into it, gold again, another world, shining above and losing itself below in darkness.”
K.M. Peyton, A Pattern of Roses