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Gillian Mary Pollock was born on 15 July 1931, the elder daughter of the children's author [[Enid Blyton]] (1897–1968) and her first husband, Major [[Hugh Pollock]] (1888–1971), a [[World War I]] veteran. On 27 October 1935, her younger sister, [[Imogen Mary Pollock]], was born. When she was 12 and her sister was 8, their parents divorced. Her mother later married the surgeon [[Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters]] (1892–1967); and her father married the writer [[Ida Crowe]], with whom he had a daughter, [[Rosemary Pollock]]. After divorce and remarriage, her mother decided that the best thing for Gillian and her sister was not to have contact with their father, of whom they had not seen much during [[World War II]]. Enid even changed her daughters' surname to "Darrell Waters". Years later, Gillian tried to contact her father Hugh; but she was never to see him again, although she did establish a relationship with her half-sister [[Rosemary Pollock]], who also became a writer.