My poor husband has had two decades of me telling him about this book and now I am actually reading it to him! I can't remember anything about the plot so we are in for a very wild ride 😬

#LostMedia #InternetWhiteWhale #FoundThings

And not only that but it was also adapted into a film made in 1988 which also looks VERY SCARY 🧵

Not only is it a book, but apparently there was a black and white TV series made in 1972 and it looks TERRIFYING 🧵

Today I did my usual search for it and I BLOODY WELL FOUND IT 🧵

I really started to doubt myself. It had been nearly thirty years and this book never came up in anything or anywhere I searched for it. A lot of the books my great aunts had sent were too unread and unloved for a space on a library shelf. Perhaps it had been a small print run. I almost gave up. 🧵

Sometimes something similar would come along. I watched a film called Slumberland (the Jason Momoa one) with an increasing sense of eerie bafflement, pointing to it and saying to my husband "this is almost it!" 🧵

Every year or so I'd remember it and search online for it. It became my white whale - no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find it. A book about a girl who fell asleep and ended up in another reality 🧵

You see, I was able to find most of them again, in the intervening thirty odd years. It became a lot easier as online second hand bookstores became a thing. But there was always one I could never find 🧵

Hello sweet Jenny ❤️ how are you?