The Observer | Review | The ascent of Pan
Kate Kellaway senses that Geraldine McCaughrean is somewhat of an imposter in Neverland:
McCaughrean has dreamt up a busy odyssey in which her best innovation, her masterstroke, is the Grief Reef, a landscape made up of broken prams and distraught mothers looking for the fallen children they lost long ago. But elsewhere, the sense is that she has too much to prove, that she is reluctant to slow down for a second lest she discover what I think in our hearts we already knew - that she was not supposed to be in Neverland at all....
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