Wayward Children · Book 4
In an Absent Dream
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN-13
- 9780765399281
- Type
- novella
About this book
In an Absent Dream precedes Come Tumbling Down in the Wayward Children series, published in 2019 and opening Katherine Lundy's Goblin Market arc, one of the internal timelines Seanan McGuire threads through the later books.
Its place in Wayward Children
In an Absent Dream is book 4 in the Wayward Children series. It follows Beneath the Sugar Sky. It is followed by Come Tumbling Down. See the full Wayward Children reading order.
Every child who falls through a door into a magical land and comes home changed needs somewhere to go -- Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children is that somewhere, a boarding school for kids who found their door, lived their story, and got sent back to a world that no longer fits. Every Heart a Doorway opens the series with Nancy, newly returned from the Halls of the Dead, arriving at the school just as students start turning up murdered, and uses the mystery to introduce Miss West's taxonomy of portal worlds -…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765399281