Le Club des Cinq campe près d’un ancien site romain. Pas sûr que ce soit l'endroit idéal pour se détendre ! En plus du mystérieux garçon qui y fait des fouilles, les cinq amis entendent des cris dans la nuit, qui proviennent d'une inquiétante maison... Le groupe décide d'aller la visiter et y découvre d'étranges souterrains. Où tout cela va-t-il les mener ?
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
I wanted to see if my French was still up to enjoying a complete book....thankfully it is! I loved Enid Blyton books 60 years ago and the format is still the same, even when set in Brittany, France. 12 year olds hiking alone in Spain, children camping unsupervised for 3 days, children swimming in lakes, children calling the police...and of course, children solving mysteries and having the joy of seeing the baddies hand-cuffed and taken to prison! No ginger-beer but plenty of tartines and chocolate....