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| THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW Spoiler alert: Plot details follow! This prequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe goes back to London at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Two children, Digory and Polly, are given magic rings by their unscrupulous Uncle Andrew, and sent as guinea pigs out of this world. They find themselves in a "wood between worlds", and go from it to the dying world of Charn, where Digory wakes the White Witch, who follows them back to London. Chaos follows, ending with Digory, Polly and the Witch, and others, coming to the wood between worlds, and then on to a formless and void world, where they witness Aslan sing Narnia into being. The Witch brings evil into the new world, but Digory has to decide whether he will break Aslan's law by stealing a life-giving apple for his dying mother. "Do you not see, Fool, that one bite of that apple would heal her?... Use your magic and go back to your own world. A minute later you can be at your Mother's bedside, giving her the fruit. Five minutes later you will see the colour coming back to her face... Soon she will be quite well again. All will be well again. Your home will be happy again. You will be like other boys" (the Witch tempts Digory with the apple). As well as being a great story, the appeal of this book is its explanations for how many of the things we meet in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, including the wardrobe itself, came into being. Click here for the other Narnia books. |
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