Enid Blyton For Grown Ups by Bruno Vincent
In the fall of last year I picked up a whole lot of misc Enid Blyton books by scouring the cheap booksellers on eBay. Most of them were $3-5 with free shipping. They arrived with minimal wrapping but usually the books were in fine shape. A couple of the books I bought were in the Enid Blyton For Grown Up series. I wanted to try a couple to see if I might want to continue reading the series. I liked the first one I read and decided to order the lot. Like the other Enid Blyton's I had picked up cheaply on eBay I got most of these for the same $3-5, for some reason the last couple were harder to find on eBay and wound up costing in the $15 range.
There are 15 books in the series. Five were released in 2016, nine were released in 2017 and the last one in 2020. Even though Enid gets credit for the series on the cover the books were really written by Bruno Vincent, except for the one by Sophie Hamley. Bruno's the better writer of the two and I came to enjoy the adventures of the Famous Five in their late 20s. There's usually something odd going on and there's plenty of sarcasm. I often laughed to myself and several of the books had a gag that made me laugh out loud. Each book is based on an activity or an event in their lives, the titles give you a good idea on what's on offer. They go sober for a month, try dieting, deal with housing, Brexit and their families. I'd recommend them but if you don't know anything about the Famous Five it seems like it could be a waste of time to read them. Mostly I just wanted to post all the covers in one lump.
Five Give Up the Booze 2016
Five Go Gluten Free 2016
Five Go On A Strategy Away Day 2016
Five Go Parenting 2016
Five On Brexit Island 2016
Five Forget Mother's Day 2017
Five Lose Dad In The Garden Centre 2017
Five Get Beach Body Ready 2017
Five At The Office Christmas Party 2017
Five Escape Brexit Island 2017
Five Get Gran Online 2017
Five Get On the Property Ladder 2017
Five Go Bump In The Night 2017
Five Go Down Under 2017 Sophie Hamley
Five Go Absolutely Nowhere 2020
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