'As if this were Narnia or somewhere': What's Real(ly) Fantasy? An Exploration of John Marsden's Tomorrow, When the War Began and Isobelle Carmody's Greylands

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  • Rhona Mayers

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1998vol8no1art1378

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Tomorrow, When the War Began, Greylands, John Marsden, Isobelle Carmody, realism, illusion, metafiction

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1998-01-01

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“’As if this were Narnia or somewhere’: What’s Real(ly) Fantasy? An Exploration of John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began and Isobelle Carmody’s Greylands” (1998) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 8(1), pp. 18–24. doi:10.21153/pecl1998vol8no1art1378.

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