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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Coraline
is a horror/fantasy novella by British author
Neil Gaiman
, published in 2002. The book is about a very "different" girl named
Coraline
Jones.
Coraline
and her parents move into an old Queen Anne style house that has been subdivided into four flats. The other tenants include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and Mr. Bobo, who is training a mouse circus. The flat beside Coraline's remains empty.
During a rainy day she discovers a locked door in the drawing room, which has been bricked up. As
Coraline
goes to visit her neighbors, Mr. Bobo relates to her a message from the mice: Don't go through the door. At tea with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Miss Spink spies danger in
Coraline
’s future after reading her tea leaves, and gives her a stone with a hole in it for protection.
Despite these warnings,
Coraline
decides to unlock the door when she is home by herself and finds the brick wall behind the door gone. In its place is a long passageway, which leads to a flat identical to her own, inhabited by her
Other Mother
and
Other Father
, who are replicas of her real parents. They have button eyes and exaggerated features. In this “Other World”,
Coraline
finds everything to be better than her reality: her
Other Parents
are attentive, her toy box is filled with animate toys that can move and fly, and the
Other Miss Spink
and Miss Forcible forever perform a cabaret show in their flat.
Coraline
even finds the feral
Black Cat
that wandered around the house in the real world can talk, however she learns he is not of the Other World... (Summary by Wikipedia)
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