Revealing the Tragic Side of a Derbyshire Author Rated As a 'Genius'

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MOST people associate Derbyshire author Alison Uttley with her selection of charming children's tales, which include Little Grey Rabbit, Sam Pig and A Traveller in Time.

However, the recent publication of Alison's private diaries - edited by Denis Judd - reveal a talented, yet very complex, personality who had a stormy and tragic family life and seemed to both delight and alienate those around her in equal measure.

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Revealing the Tragic Side of a Derbyshire Author Rated As a 'Genius'

In many ways, it was lucky that the diaries actually survived after Alison's death as her son John, with whom she had love-hate relationship, almost end...

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