Cohoonġ10 Setting Free: Margaret Mahy and Disability Kathy Saundersġ30 Telling Stories of Desire: The Power of Authorship in The Changeover and The Amber Spyglass Lisa Scallyġ48 True-seeming lyes in Margaret Mahys Fiction Kathryn Wallsġ68 The Wobble in the Symmetry: The Narrators Role in The Catalogue of the Universe Sam Hesterġ87 √ Fertility and Felicity and Ferocity of Invention: New Zealand Landscapes in Margaret Mahys Young Adult Novels Diane HebleyĢ10 Gardening in Eden: Margaret Mahys Postcolonial Ghosts and the New Zealand Landscape Ruth P. Reality and the supernatural intertwine in this exciting and chilling novel from. Essays include: Solid All the Way Through: Margaret Mahys Ordinary Witches, Telling Stories of Desire: The Power of Authorship in The Changeover and The Amber Spyglass and Gardening in Eden: Margaret Mahys Postcolonial Ghosts and the New Zealand Landscape.ħ Introduction: Marvellous Codes Elizabeth HaleĢ1 Solid All the Way Through: Margaret Mahys Ordinary Witches Alison WallerĤ4 Contagious Knowledge: Margaret Mahy and the Adolescent Novel Anna SmithĦ2 Ariadne ∝own Under: Margaret Mahys The Tricksters Claudia MarquisĨ4 Pirate Parenting in Margaret Mahys Middle-Grade Readers Lorinda B. Author(s): Margaret Mahy New Zealand titles - children. Leading local and international scholars explore some of the multifarious themes of Margaret Mahys extraordinary young adult novels. Marvellous Codes focuses on Mahys novels for young adults. Margaret Mahy is one of the great New Zealand writers.

And when, pushed by no matter what sort of force from outside, we fall into the cracks in the structure, we immediately start to compose stories to bridge the crack or fill it in so we can walk out of it safely. Story and fantasy have many functions in our lives, but one of the functions is to mediate between us and naked existence, to nudge us back into a state of astonishment from which we can also easily retreat, as well as providing places to stand, strong places in an overwhelming world.

The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy