Ann Benton explains why a Christian sub-culture at home is vital
When my sisters and I were children, one of the storybooks we had in our comparatively small collection at home was a clothbound book, published in 1946 with attractive coloured pictures. It was The Children of Happy House by Enid Blyton.
This is the story of a family who moved to a new house in the country, and is a charming evocation of a secure family life where nothing more alarming happens than the breaking of glass in the next-door neighbour’s cucumber frame. Written at a time when Britain was just emerging from the uncertainty, loss and fear of invasion of WWII, it was no doubt a sweet diversion, expressing hopes for a better life for the nation’s children. I recall it now with some nostalgia.
