"There are a hundred different clocks in the Emporium. Some keep time with the comings and goings of London seasons. Others tick out of sync, counting down the hours of that faraway coastline the Godman brothers once called home. Still more keep erratic and uncontrollable times: one counts each third second backwards, the better to extend the time between chores; another elongates the evening, all the better to keep bedtime at bay. These are the times that children keep, and which adults are forbidden from remembering. Only a child could understand how one day might last an eternity, while another pass in the flicker of an eye."

Starting off 2022 with a bang, I loved everything about this story! It was magical, imaginative, well-written, but with serious undertones beneath the glorious, otherworldly faery-tale-ish-ness. I was enchanted the entire time and never wanted the story to end. My inner child is smiling big and hoping for a part II