The story opens with Coraline, a child who is not taken seriously by adults. She discovers that a locked door in her home passes through to another reality, a house which is an inversion of her own world. She undergoes a quest to escape from the clutches of her ‘other mother’, a struggle on which both her and her parents’ survival depends. The novel is at once a modern fairy tale, a horror story and an allegory about growing up.
I wanted to like the story but I felt cheated by it.
Surely it is just a retelling of 'The Wizard of Oz'?
Surely it is just a retelling of 'The Book of Lost Things' by John Connolly?
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