I cannot believe I had this treasure sitting my my bookshelf for almost 20 years before reading it. It is high fantasy in the tradition of Tolkeien an C.S. Lewis. It has all the elements that make great fantasy, lots of adventure, danger, battles between good and evil, and a completely unique look at the universe. ( )

Recommended by that sympathetic intelligence known as "withywindle." And, appropriately, a book in which I felt at home. So many elements and echoes of things that are dear to me -- the complexities of internal spaces, large houses (especially when one is small), flashes of George MacDonald, and David Lindsey, snatches of poets I like (Marvell, Stevenson). I am not sure that someone who brought a different taste to it would like it as much as I did. The prose style, like the plot, will not be universally compelling. But I was compelled, and felt I had a friend in the author.

"This is the room of horrors. You will never leave it" ( )