The Snow Child, a recent book by Eowyn Ivey, also has plausible deniability in a wonderfully deft balancing of fairy tale and realism. I loved it. Loved Among Others, too, and will now read the Fascists trilogy, sonce you say it’s even better. Jenny, you are my failsafe for reading suggestions.

My mother was always that kid growing up in the US with a love of speculative fiction decades before its time. I think that’s a big part of why I read so much; I inherited her books.

I can’t believe I disagree with Teresa on something of this gravity! #teamnarnia

yeah, I thought part of the point of Wim as a character is that the situation puts you, as the reader, in the shoes of the narrator a little bit: you’re young, you like his looks, he seems nice, but should you trust how you feel? And I like it that it’s never entirely resolved.