She finds these children and offers them a safe place to acknowledge and discuss what happened to them-all while making it clear that they will most likely never find their door again. Meanwhile, everyone around them thinks they’ve become mentally ill, or that they were kidnapped and have developed some maladaptive way of coping with the trauma.Įleanor is a former wayward child herself. They often spend their time searching for the door that would lead them back to the otherworld. Whatever the case, these “wayward” children usually encounter massive difficulties reintegrating into society. They might have lived years in the otherworld, only to return to the exact moment they left home, or find that several years passed in the single month they were away. The first Wayward Children novella, Every Heart a Doorway, introduced Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children: a boarding school for kids who walked through hidden doors into fantasy worlds-think the Chronicles of Narnia or Alice in Wonderland-only to later be sent back to Reality.
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