![]() ![]() This story sits behind, and ends up explaining, much of the action as January breaks free and goes on a quest find some doors of her own. After her father dies on one of his expeditions, January finds a book called The Ten Thousand Doors, which tells the story of a man from another world who steps through a door and meets a girl from our world. But as January grows up she finds that perhaps the doors to other worlds are real and that she might have some power to affect them. She unwisely tells her Mr Locke, who claims it is all in her wild imagination and almost immediately he puts in place measures to have that imagination suppressed. When she is seven January finds a door in a field that takes her, briefly, into another world. It is the turn of the twentieth century and Locke employs January’s father to travel the world searching for (and taking possession of) arcane archaeological treasurers. January Scallar is a wilful child who lives with her father’s wealthy employer Mr Locke. ![]() Which brings us to The Ten Thousand Doors of January, the debut novel from Alix Harrow, a book that trope-wise, is about as YA as they come, which is not in itself a criticism, just an observation. And then there are books that are marketed to adults but could just as easily sit on the shelf of a fourteen year old. There are books that are clearly marketed to the Young Adult market that are also designed to hook in more adult readers. ![]()
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