Under the floorboards
When I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable facsimiles of the things I saw around me – spaces that I controlled with the iron rod of a dictator. (Yes, I know, Dr. Freud.) No surprise, then, that my imagination was captured by Mary Norton’s Borrowers series, which concerns a family of tiny people living under the floorboards of an English home and furnishing their own rooms with misla