Margaret Storey is the author

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 of several books for children

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has cited her as an influence: "Margaret Storey is more or less out of print these days, alas. I loved her when I was about seven or eight, and am looking forward to finding out how much of her stuff has wound up in mine."

Her work includes a series based on the adventures of two children, Timothy and Ellen, and a witch named Melinda Farbright: "the real thing - strange and magical, and above all, dangerous" This series includes the following works:

• Timothy and Two Witches
• The Stone Wizard aka "The Stone Sorcerer"
• The Dragon's Sister and Timothy Travels
• A Quarrel of Witches
• The Sleeping Witch
• A War of Wizards (1976)
• The Double Wizard

Her books, for older children, include

• Wrong Gear
• Keep Running
• Pauline
• The Mollyday Holiday

Pauline, about an orphan forced to live with uncomprehending relatives, has been described as "an astonishingly mature novel for a new writer".