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Teodora’s Book Reviews: “The Imagination Box” by Martyn Ford (Faber & Faber, London, 2015)

If you had the chance to create anything you wanted with the help of a special box, what would you pick? There are countless possibilities and the only limit is your imagination… Timothy Hart, the main character of the story, lives in Glassbridge (“a quaint city full of history, complete with old buildings, wonky roofs, cobblestone streets, rusted iron railings and statues of people on horseback”), in the Dawn Star Hotel, which is owned by his adoptive parents, Chris and Elisa Green. Elisa is always busy with the hotel, being constantly anxious about money and not having enough time to pay attention to Tim’s “nonsense” (and by nonsense, she means everything Tim says or does). Chris is working for an internet company, so he spends most of his time away on business, selling and buying all sorts of things. Tim has to make his own fun, but this doesn’t seem to bother him at all. In fact he prefers his own company. His favorite hobby, drawing, is the perfect getaway from reality: “Paper