Instead of blue seas and clear skies there are miles of dangerous, misty marshes. Although it is also coastal it is as different from Kirrin as you can imagine. Smuggler’s Top is the perfect change of scenery for the Five and for us readers. They haven’t been at Kirrin since the summer of Five Run Away Together, and we are now at Easter the next year. Now, as much as I love the Kirrin-based adventures it’s exciting that the fourth book takes us somewhere new, after summer, winter and summer at Kirrin. I haven’t actually read this in over six years (!) so it’s definitely time to put that right as well. I’ve also written about it in 10 Facts About the Famous Five and Me, and about my Smuggler’s Top birthday cake here.Īnd yet I’ve never reviewed it (my review of the dramatised audio doesn’t count!) so I’m ready to change that today.One of its quotes appears in my list of favourite Blyton quotes.It features twice on my list of top Famous Five moments.It won first place in my list of favourite Blyton books, and unsurprisingly was also top of my favourite Famous Five books.Here we are at book #4 in the series and, as I’ve probably said a hundred times or more, this is my absolute favourite Famous Five book.
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