One-Day Travelcard for Fairyland
— Author's Notes
One-Day Travelcard for Fairyland
— Author's Notes
Having grown up on a diet of Enid Blyton and Chalet School books, I have a lasting fondness for boarding school stories. They are such a neat solution for the problem of adults getting in the way of adventures (frequently solved in young adult fiction by killing off the protagonist's parents). And I like stories about enclosed communities that operate by strict rules, which are neither obvious nor familiar to the reader at the outset, and require some figuring out. I am also fond of Star Trek slice-of-life fanfic about what happens on starships between away missions, Patrick O'Brian's Age of Sail novels with their careful attention to the minutiae of shipboard life, and Jane Austen's squabbling gentry.
"Kids stumble on mysterious magic in the English countryside and there is trouble" is another established genre of British children's literature that this story draws on. The magic is standard for its setting, but the kids are a little different.
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