Fiction Is a Healing and Inspiring Force in People’s Lives

In many ways, this book is a book about how literature can inspire people, and this inspiration is especially strong in the novel in relation to children’s literature. For Lucy, Christopher, the other contestants, and countless other people in the world of the novel, the Clock Island series provided an escape when they were children and helped them deal with the hardships of life. Lucy found the series when she was worried about her sister’s life as she waited in a hospital waiting room. Because Lucy was left alone for so long, she was also afraid that her parents had left her and would never come back for her. The Clock Island book she finds gives her an escape out of the world of suffering and neglect she lives in. It is not just...