A Pattern of Roses by K.M. Peyton6/3/2023 Peyton: the 'M' was her husband Mike who helped create the plots. This was when Peyton began writing under K.M. However, after the birth of her second daughter, she turned to writing full-time: mostly boy's adventure stories which she sold in serialised form to The Scout magazine, and then published in full. When they returned to Britain, Peyton completed a teaching diploma. They married when she was twenty-one and went travelling around Europe. There she met another student, Mike Peyton (an ex-serviceman who had been a prisoner of war), who shared her love of walking in the Pennines. After school, she went to Kingston Art School then Manchester Art School. Though she couldn't own a horse (she grew up in London), she was obsessed with them: all her early books are about girls who have ponies. She began writing when she was nine, first publishing when she was fifteen under her maiden name of Kathleen Herald she 'never decided to become a writer.just was one'. In 1979 these were made into a 13 part television series, Flambards, which starred Christine McKenna as the novels' heroine Christina Parsons. She has written more than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award. Peyton (born 2 August 1929, Birmingham, England), is a British author. Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M.
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