[1] After she attended the North London Collegiate School in 1938, she entered publishing in 1949 at Oxford University Press where she became an assistant editor.

She was put through to Lime Green Studios and Michael Bond who told her that as a TV cameraman he was not supposed to take calls at work.

[3] and thereafter she wrote almost 20 novels for children, including the acclaimed Last Year’s Broken Toys (1962), which gave a child’s-eye view of growing up during the second world war.

Her career in publishing continued at Hodder and Stoughton, Reader's Digest (managing editor of condensed books) and, finally, at University of Queensland Press.

[7] Ker Wilson died in Bowral, New South Wales on 10 September 2020, survived by her daughters and two grandchildren.