Children’s author Philippa Pearce, who was responsible for books such as Tom’s Midnight Garden, has died aged 86 after suffering a stroke.
The former BBC producer wrote her first novel, Minnow on the Say, in 1955, and her home – a Cambridgeshire mill house – inspired much of her work.
Tom’s Midnight Garden, about a young boy who finds a secret Victorian garden at his uncle’s home, was among them.
It sold millions of copies and was adapted for film, TV and theatre.
It also won the British Library Association’s Carnegie Medal in 1958.BBC News, 3rd January, 2007
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