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Rewrite the ending

My favourite books as a child transported me to fantasy worlds. Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree and CS Lewis’s Narnia series proved that the logic of science and the limitations of real life need not apply in fiction. They were tales written to take us to different places, far-off lands and bring us back again. Same but different, an escape from the everyday.

When I was young, I accepted the way stories ended, because it didn’t occur to me to challenge the authors I admired. But what if you don’t like the way a book ends? From the age of five, my friend Sarah began

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