The Real Mary Poppins

The Real Mary Poppins explores and traces the parallel lives of Pamela Travers and Mary Poppins from their origins through to their transformation from servant to seer. The enigma that was Pamela Travers is finally revealed in this biography of the creator of one of the most popular characters in children's fiction and film. Behind the character of the smiling Nanny lies a complex tale of a young woman escaping her upbringing in rural Australia in her pursuit to become a writer, reinventing herself and her past along the way. Behind the iconic Disney film Mary Poppins is a funny, moving twenty-year debate between Pamela Travers and Walt Disney about how the flying nanny would be immortalised on the silver screen.