![]() ![]() Laburnum Cottage-Philip and Helen's home at the start of the book. ![]() Lucy, too, has found her way into the city and joins Philip as a co-Deliverer, much to his chagrin. Noah, from a Noah's Ark playset, tells Philip that there are seven great deeds to be performed if he wants to prove himself the Deliverer. Some soldiers find him and tell him that two outsiders have been foretold to be coming: a Deliverer and a Destroyer. Then, through some magic, he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into the world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. It initially appeared as a serial in The Strand Magazine, with illustrations by Spencer Pryse.Īfter Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with Helen's new step daughter Lucy. ![]() The Magic City is a children's book by E. ![]()
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