Stella Benson 2 hr 38 min read

This is not a real book, and should not be read by real people, only by the magically inclined, who will follow a witch through a wartime London where enchantment and the everyday intertwine.

Stella Benson's 1919 novel is a whimsical, wistful fantasy of witches and magic shops amid the Great War. Charming, sad, wryly funny. Read it for a lovely and singular fantasy that finds the marvelous tucked into the corners of a weary, war-worn world.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).