On the train to school, Barbara is writing a story about the Pleasant Land, which is reached through a magic doorway. But at a certain point she always gets stuck. One day, the tale takes on a strange and magical life of its own.

Published
1998
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Charles Ashton

Charles Ashton is the author of The Dragon Fire Trilogy – Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire (shortlisted for both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the W. H. Smith Mind Boggling Books Award), Into the Spiral and The Shining Bridge – as well as the novel Billy's Drift, and, for younger readers, The Giant's Boot (shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize), The Boy Who Was a Bear and The Snow Door.