The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
It seems natural to categorise The Ten Thousand Doors of January as a young-adult book, but the truth is that it’s likely to appeal to readers of any age who remember what it was once like to have the ability to imagine a wide world of endless possibilities. Even if it’s just as a reminder of classic adventure books you might have read as a child, Alix E. Harrow manages to recapture the excitement and wonder of those days brilliantly, the kind of possibilities offered by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , by Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree books. Prepare to undertake a thrilling new journey into other worlds. The setting of The Ten Thousand Doors of January is a classic period for adventure, the turn of the twentieth century, a time of change opening up exotic new worlds of invention and discovery. Those exciting new worlds seems to be tantalisingly out of reach for the ‘odd coloured’ 9 year-old January Scaller in Vermont, New England, her adventures confined to the stuff of co...