Can anyone read this writing please?

[OhMoreDrama]

It's in a book my dad has and we're trying to figure out if it's an author signature.

Thank you!

Not sure the pic worked!

Not a clue! Are you going to tell us the author name or did you not want to influence us?

But from its confident and singular placement on the page I'd have said author, yes

Very hard!!!

I'll kick us off with Dylan Charter

Is it definitely English? The surname looks like it could end in "ier", in other words French, which is going to make it much harder (for me anyway).

I'm going with Jolyon Charles....

Julian Charles?

Who wrote the book?

Leyllan Charler

Which I know isn't a name. But that's what I see.

Oh... maybe Julian Bearden

Lilian/Julian Charles?

I read the first name as Julian

I got Raphael for the first name.

Just looked at it again and realised how very impossible it is, unless it's joylion... which is unlikely 😁 but not impossible... I taught a kid called loyyd once, so we don't all have names with the letters you'd expect...!

First name clearly has a "descender" in the middle of it, which rules out Julian and Lillian. (But then an "ascender" right next to it - I'm guessing "gh" in the middle).

Looks like Julian Charles to me.

Lylian Charles

Gerald Reitlinger wrote the book, with a foreword by Martian Gilbert.

Gylian Charler ??

Lilian Garcia?

Could they both have been onto the third bottle?

Enid Blyton

Could it be signature of the person who gifted the book? Like a teacher or someone..

Don't give anyone on the Baby Names thread any ideas!

I'd have said 2nd name begins Robert–.