Which does not mean that there is not a price for everything in this fair and just community – just that the system is set up so that no one can take advantage of anyone else. Lundy found her door to the Goblin Market, a place governed utterly by the concept of “fair value”. So she found a door to a world where she could thrive – a world where fairness, absolute fairness – was enforced by an invisible but inexorable hand. Lundy knew it wasn’t fair – and if there was one thing Lundy believed in, it was fairness – a fairness that this world did not provide. In 1964, when Lundy was six years old, she was learning that the world had a very tiny box into which it shoved little girls – and that it was more than willing to lop off extra limbs – or at least what it called inappropriate thoughts, feelings, ambitions and ideas – in order to force those little girls to fit into the box labeled “womanhood” when the time came. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.Īs the story began, it was easy – very easy – for me to empathize with Katherine Lundy. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo,, Better World Books Published by Tordotcom on January 8, 2019

Genres: fantasy, portal fantasy, urban fantasy, young adult In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) by Seanan McGuireįormats available: hardcover, ebook, audiobook

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