The Two Families

by Margaret Biggs

198 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Born in 1929 in Orpington, Kent, Margaret Biggs was the daughter of a local Sales Manager for Chivers. Her family moved to Barnet, in Hertfordshire, in 1935, where she attended Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School until 1946. When she left school, she went to work for the editorial department of the Evans Brothers publishing company, in Bloomsbury. She married David Cadney in 1953, and moved with him to Finchley, and then (in the 1960s) to Solihull, in the West Midlands, where she still lives today. She has one daughter and two sons.

The author of a number of popular and collectible girls' school stories, Margaret Biggs is probably best known for her Melling School series, which is set at a weekly boarding school and is unusual, in that it shows boarding school life and home life side by side. The interaction between girls and boys is also atypical of the genre at that time.

Reviews

[Charlotte · Rating 3 out of 5]

entertaining in a mild sort of way, but two car accidents for plot purposes is a big much. One is plenty.

[Drake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Margaret Biggs is best known perhaps for her Melling series. This book puts The Mellings in the shade. Charming story that could be read again and again without losing any of its appeal. An interesting account of the early influence of home tv also !

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two very different families live next door to each other. This is a delightful story of how they each influence the other, mostly to the good but not always! They have some interesting adventures and it has a good ending. I enjoyed this and would read it again.

[Jen Pritchard · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read this book a number of times and find it a joy!