![]() ![]() I loved the eerie style of writing, and the diverse cast of characters that included an asexual protagonist and a boy who is transgender. Very atmospheric and strange, but also full of wit and humour, this story is just damn near perfect. She offers them a place where they can be believed. Because Eleanor has been to her own world and she knows the sadness and loss these children experience when they are dragged back to the "real" world. Eleanor West promises to help them, and she does, just not in the way the parents imagine. ![]() The ones who claim to have been to a different world. No one, that is, except Eleanor West.Įleanor West's Home for Wayward Children is where despairing parents send their troubled kids. It's a kind of dark, creepy fairy tale about all those children who slipped through the cracks - a wardrobe, a rabbit hole, or a simple doorway - and found themselves somewhere else somewhere no one would believe they'd been. I have to try and explain Every Heart a Doorway somehow, but it isn't easy. ‘Be Sure.’ Sure of what? We were twelve, we weren’t sure of anything. “We went down, and at the bottom there was a door, and on the door there was a sign. ![]()
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