The Fantasy Reader

About

There’s a new, mysterious flight of stairs outside 14-year-old Carol Tanner’s bedroom. It goes up and up and up, into the realms of sheer impossibility — just as stairs in a three-bedroomed semi-detached house on Willow Drive shouldn’t. And it’s not there all the time…

One day, Carol decides to escape up those stairs, leaving her difficult life in this world for just the sort of fantasy land she so loves to read about.

The trouble is, that land is dying. The Princess, who sings the sun to new life each day, has been kidnapped by the evil Necromancer, and all the heroes sent to rescue her have not come back. The days are getting darker. Can Carol, and her doleful young companion, the Dolorous Lord, do something to save this world when so many heroes have failed?

 

An exciting, funny, sometimes dark, and very human tale of fantasy books, mysterious stairs, wizards, heroes, glimmerlings, manticores (or, just one — but one’s enough), world-saving, escape, redemption and renewal, The Fantasy Reader is a novel for YA and up, about what happens when 14-year-old Carol escapes from the world she knows into just the sort of world she so loves to read about. Only, she’s hardly the adventurous sort...