![]() Years pass, and memory turns to myth as January grows up. Mr Locke has taken January with him on a trip to Kentucky, and she has snuck away to explore when she finds an old blue door in a lonely, overgrown field, opens the door, and steps through into another world. She has been his ward since she was a baby, with her father working as one of Mr Locke’s field agents securing treasures for his collection. It is the summer of 1901, and seven-year-old January Scaller is the ward of the mysterious Mr.Locke – almost billionaire and collector of artefacts. Harrow, delivering a tale that speaks to one of humanity’s oldest fantasies – visiting another world. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is an emphatically stunning debut by Alix E. A riotous swirl of adjectives, all apt and all applicable. That is the feeling that came over me upon finishing this book, and I basked in every second of its warmth. The sheer bliss of surrendering to the moment evident in their eyes. Languid stretches and lazy yawns and leisurely rolls. I have been watching my cats lazing about in the warm, reposeful afternoon sun. ![]() They lead to Faerie, to Valhalla, Atlantis and Lemuria, Heaven and Hell, to all the directions a compass could never take you, to elsewhere.” “…there are ten thousand stories about ten thousand Doors, and we know them as well as we know our names. Published: September 12th, 2019 by Orbit (UK) & September 10th, 2019 by Redhook (US) ![]() ![]() The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. ![]()
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