And so she finds her way in (and out of) the Goblin Market where no one may ask for anything and everything must be given fair value. Her world is filled with rules and expectations, and she likes the former much more than the latter.įollowing the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked. Katherine Victoria Lundy is a lonely, quiet girl growing up as a principal’s daugher. Unfortunately, it also suffered from pacing issues. She assumed, in her practical way, that a husband would appear one day, summoned out of the ether like a necessary milestone, and she would work at the library while he worked someplace equally sensible, and they would have children of their own, because that was how the world was structured. Could have drawn it on a map if pressed: the long highways of education, the soft valleys of settling down. Something short, something warm, something familiar, right? I didn’t expect it’d be so sad – much sadder than the other Wayward Children novellas so far – but then, I read Every Heart a Doorway, I should have.Īt eight years old, Katherine Lundy already knew the shape of her entire life. I have thought this novella was just what I wanted.
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