I thought the Golden Age of Narnia was the brightest, most joyful era of The Chronicles of Narnia. But at the end of The Last Battle, I find that I have clearly been wrong. That age was only a shadow of the brighter still, only good, glorious land remade by Aslan.

At the start of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis writes, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” This is quite true for me as I make my way through the Chronicles of Narnia. By the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I found myself wishing, with Lucy, that my time in Narnia would not come to an end.