What goes on when you return to the real world after being within a fantastical one like Narnia? This YA debut by Laura E. Weymouth is ideal for followers of Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood and Lev Grossman’s The Magicians.

Six years back, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years. But ever since they returned to their lives in post-WWII Britain, they have struggled to adjust.

Ev desperately wants to go back to the Woodlands, and Philippa just wants to proceed. When Ev will go lacking, Philippa must confront the depth of her sister’s despair as well as the unpleasant truths they’ve been operating from. As the weeks unfold, Philippa wonders if Ev truly did discover a way home, or if the pounds of their worlds taken her under.

Walking the line between where dream and reality meet, this lyrical and magical novel is certainly, most of all, an exploration of loss and curing, and what this means to find where you belong.