Sometimes this takes the traditional form of a ghost story as in The Mirror Ghost or of a mysterious puzzle as in The Chinese Egg. It also encouraged her analytic approach to writing and her concern to show the possibilities of explaining events in more than one way, both scientific or "real", and magical. Her clinical training enabled her to capture so surely the child's-eye view of the world. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School, she went on to read English at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then qualified as a doctor and trained as a psychiatrist, working in London hospitals through the 50s and early 60s, before combining the two educational backgrounds by becoming an editor for Penguin Books. This particular characteristic may come directly from Storr's professional background. Though externally so different, they show Storr's skill and enthusiasm as a story teller as well as reflecting her ability to create characters of remarkable insight, whose stories she tells in parallels of fantasy and reality. Both are timeless and, though published in 19 respectively, are in print as "classics", with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf remaining a staple of the curriculum in primary schools. The second, for older readers, is an extended fantasy, as Marianne, convalescing and so with time on her hands, creates and enters a dream house where she meets Mark and faces the threat of destruction.
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