![]() ![]() At the beginning is an extract from Christina Rossetti's bewitchingly enticing poem, also Goblin Market, stressing the ripeness, the juiciness, the taste, of all those fruits that are on offer. ![]() ![]() The story is bookmarked by two references. (To fail to do so would lead to an escalating series of changes and losses, eventually resulting in. In the manner of the Wayward Children books, of course, she finds just that: a doorway leads her to the Goblin Market where everyone must always give "fair value". It's all not fair, and Katharine longs for a world where things are fair and there are rules that everyone follows. Because her father is the Principal of her middle American elementary school, no-one wants to know her. It's the 1960s, and teachers can easily get away with saying things like, girls need more help with maths. We enter the world of (Katharine) Lundy, an intense, studious girl who has no friends. ![]() The fourth volume in the Wayward Children series is actually a prequel, the events taking place a few decades before the other books. I reviewed In An Absent Dream as an audiobook (even though I've cited the availability of the hardback version above, probably because I fetishise the physical object or something, don't get me started). ![]()
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