I think we love the ability to go somewhere else for a little while in our heads, and these stories allow us to do that.
You know, she was a woman of the time, she was an orphan, she had a very specific social standing, and didn’t have many prospects, and so this allowed her the ability to disappear.
I think his love of language, and his love of magic and fantasy is something that people are going to always resonate with, because it’s a form of escapism.
Edith [Bratt] got that out of his storytelling, and it was a way for her to really leave her present existence.