Amy Irene Byers (née Cookson; 7 June 1906 – 11 February 1992)[3] was an English novelist, poet and children's writer who wrote around forty books mostly published in the 1950s and 1960s.
[4] In her early career Byers worked as a freelance journalist specialising in interviews with famous people such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike.
The Brevingtons, an essentially country family, are transplanted at short notice to a slum neighbourhood where they join their mother in a rent-free house, but their surroundings are the greatest shock to them, and so are the children who live there...
"Her 1954 book Tim of Tamberly Forest was broadcast as "a serial play in four episodes"[7] on BBC radio's Children's Hour in 1955.
A rather trite storyteller's tone of voice and some ordinary characters (a gang of toughs, a poor lonely rich girl, an artist living in a caravan) do not take all the shine from a book that is full of the fascination of growing things, and of a particular vocation minutely, enthusiastically explored.