Hugo Award
Hugo and Nebula Award winner. What happens to children after they return from magical worlds? This haunting dark fantasy follows Nancy to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children—a sanctuary for those who’ve traveled through doorways and desperately want to go back. Until murder shatters everything.
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Winner of the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and New York Times Bestseller
What happens to children after they return from magical worlds? Where do they go when the wardrobe closes, when the rabbit hole leads only back home?
Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway answers these haunting questions with breathtaking originality. This award-winning dark fantasy introduces us to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children—a sanctuary for those who’ve tumbled through doorways into impossible places and emerged forever changed. These aren’t the triumphant heroes of traditional portal fantasies. They’re the ones who came back, and they’re desperate to return.
Nancy is the newest arrival, still reeling from her time in the Halls of the Dead. Among fellow travelers—children who’ve visited worlds of logic and nonsense, virtue and wickedness—she finally finds understanding. But when a series of brutal murders shatters the Home’s fragile peace, Nancy and her schoolmates must uncover the darkness lurking within their sanctuary.
McGuire weaves together the melancholy beauty of Alice in Wonderland with the sharp edges of contemporary dark fantasy, creating something entirely her own. Critics have hailed it as “a mini-masterpiece” (NPR), and readers have embraced this Hugo and Nebula Award winner as a modern classic.
Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab and Neil Gaiman, this slim volume packs an emotional punch that lingers long after the final page. The first book in the beloved Wayward Children series, it’s a story about finding your people—even when you don’t quite belong anywhere at all.
A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics.
Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in this gorgeous tale of worlds lost and found.
McGuire's stand-alone fantasy will appeal to fans of her October Daye series and of Lev Grossman's The Magicians.
A tale of grief, empathy, and the magic of accepting those who don't quite fit.
Devastatingly beautiful... This is a book for all those kids who don't want to go back through the wardrobe.
Brilliant, moving, and darkly funny.
Seanan McGuire is one of the best writers working today. Every Heart a Doorway is a beautiful, dark, funny, and profound meditation on the ways in which we fall into ourselves.
| Weight | 0.60 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.65 × 0.70 × 8.50 in |
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| Subject | Contemporary, Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy, Fiction |
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