[5] After leaving the army Pollock moved to England and joined the publishers George Newnes in London.
Through Newnes Pollock met Enid Blyton, a writer nine years his junior, after she had been commissioned to write a children's book about London Zoo.
Their relationship developed, and shortly after he divorced his estranged first wife he married Blyton at Bromley Register Office in August 1924; the couple spent their honeymoon in Jersey.
They moved out of central London in 1926 to live at Elfin Cottage in Beckenham, and then to Old Thatch in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire in 1929.
The family moved in 1938, settling in a large house in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire which was named Green Hedges by readers of Blyton's magazine Sunny Stories.
His marriage to Blyton came under severe strain,[3] and she had a series of affairs, the most serious being with Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon, in 1941.
During a bungled firearms training session on a firing range, he was hit by shrapnel and Ida contacted Enid, who declined to visit her husband because she was busy and hated hospitals.
[9] Pollock left the Army for a second time after the Second World War with the rank of lieutenant colonel, but found Blyton prevented him returning to his old job at George Newnes, threatening to change her publisher if he was accepted back.
Being in print with several major international publishers at the same time, she decided to use multiple pseudonyms and she found success as a romantic novelist.