Mary Norton blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Mary Norton 1903-1992 Author of The Borrowers lived here as a child Recorded plaque organisation: Leighton-Linslade Town Council.

Mary Norton was a British children's author best known for her "The Borrowers" series, which imagines a world inhabited by tiny people who secretly live in human homes and "borrow" their possessions; she spent her childhood in this house, where the seeds of her imaginative literary works may have been sown.