Recommended for children and adults who enjoy some suspense and magic, but are not prone to nightmares.

S. Lewis’s Narnia series with its four siblings who accidentally cross into another realm and find themselves instrumental in its fate but there the resemblance ends. When Roland opens a door in a derelict church, he unleashes the wonders of Elidor and the grave challenges that this troubled world presents. Elidor is a children's fantasy novel by the British author Alan Garner, published by Collins in 1965. S. Lewis children's adventure story until the last two pages, when it suddenly becomes a grown-up critique of that sort of story. This is counteracted by allusions to the English folklore poem Childe Rowland and Irish mythology in particular the reference to the Tuatha Dé Danann treasures, spear, sword, cauldron and stone.According to the medieval legend, only the calming presence of a virgin can tame the wild and ferocious nature of the unicorn and only thus may it be killed.

It features four young teenage children, David, Nicholas, Helen and Roland, who inadvertently break though the fabric of time and space at a weak point, to find themselves in another universe.There's a case for saying that Alan Garner is the finest children's author of the late 20th century, but that does him a disservice. Obviously, Roland is clearly the protagonist, but the other siblings could have been rewritten as a single character for all the distinct personality they showed. The conflict between good and evil that is happening in Elidor comes back with Roland into the heart of the family.