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“Christopher doesn’t realise that other people’s dreams aren’t like his. He simply gets up each night and finds the corner he needs to turn to enter ‘the place between the worlds’, a rather formless and unfriendly valley…This is the beauty of Diana Wynne-Jones, I think. Her magic feels so real, because it’s never overblown. It’s just another fact in people’s lives.” Read more...
“There is so much children’s fiction that is described as parallel worlds fiction – from Narnia to Alice in Wonderland to Marianne Dreams and so on. Diana Wynne Jones is a brilliant writer of this sort of book: it’s about a schoolboy who discovers that in his dreams he travels to many worlds. He’s quite innocent about it all and sees it as a child would – as an amazing experience that he doesn’t particularly try to analyse. His uncle asks him to do some experiments and sends him into these worlds with a spirit traveller called Tacroy, and tries to get him to bring stuff back.” Read more...
The best books on Parallel Worlds
Joanna Kavenna, Novelist
