Astra asked Lesley Glaister:

Who are some of your main influences?

Lesley Glaister I really think hat everything I've ever read has influenced me, for good or bad, consciously or otherwise. However, writers that I am conscious of having helped shape me: C.S. Lewis - read and read and read again his Narnia books as a child; Enid Blyton (though I blush to admit it); story tellers from the Hammer House of Horror short story anthologies which I read greedily as a teenager and later Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Barabara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Rhys ... I could go on. But these are the main influences that spring to mind immediately. Thanks for your question Astra.

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