SOURCE: Baker, Phil. “Studies in Solipsism.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4774 (30 September 1994): 25.

In the following review, Baker offers praise for The Daydreamer, lauding the characterizations, wit, and attention to detail in the work.

The Daydreamer is a children's book, containing seven stories about the adventures of young Peter Fortune. Peter is a “difficult” child, not because he is badly behaved but because he is so quiet and dreamy. Throughout these stories, he slips in and out of reality, crossing the threshold with a just perceptible shift.

Alone with his sister's dolls, he feels their uncanny little eyes watching him. Then one doll—a particularly ugly one called the Bad Doll, which is missing an arm and a leg and has only a single hank of hair left in its scalp holes—begins to question him. “Its tone was very polite, but there were titters in the crowd, and Peter...