Tamsin

Peter S. Beagle is a treasure. Somehow I'd never read this one, so when I saw it at the Little Free Library, I pounced on it. It turned out to be the perfect sick day read – ideal for immersing myself in (and helping me forget my rhinovirus-induced misery) while wrapped up in blankets, drinking tea and sniffling into Kleenex.Moreso than his other books, this one reminded me how powerfully affected I was by stories like [b:Dogsbody 18932 Dogsbody Diana Wynne Jones https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389339063s/18932.jpg 1106116] and The Dark is Rising as a child. There's the same sense of magic, but not a fluffy, toothless, Disney-ified magic; this is a darker magic, darker and older and wilder.