About the book: 2018 / There are people who leave childhood forever: one day they suddenly become serious and important, they stop believing in miracles and fairy tales. And there are people like Timothée de Fombelle: they know how to return from everyday life to Narnia, Schwambrania and the Neverland of their own childhood. The first and second have one thing in common: neither one nor the other can remember when they left their personal magical land. The new autobiographical book of the French writer is full of images, melodies and smells - yes, smells: a country house, a summer garden, antiquity - their you almost physically feel everything when reading. Namely, aromas best provoke memories. The matured Timothée de Fombelle sets off to meet himself in the hope of understanding at what point he said goodbye to Captain Hook, and creates an exceptionally unusual memoir prose. “Neverland. Where Does Childhood Go” is a novel that in itself doesn’t tell much. But it provokes thought, imagination and memory: falling into countless traps set by the author, the reader learns something new about himself from page to page. And if you’re a little lucky, he finds his way back to Neverland. Or at least a simple map with which you can taxi onto this road. Timothée de Fombelle (born in 1973) is the author of popular children's and teenage books, the total circulation of which has long exceeded a million copies. The dilogies “Toby Lolness” and “Vango”, the story “The Girl from Tower 330” and the novel “The Book of Joshua Pearl” have found many fans among Russian readers, and the Compass Guide publishing house continues to introduce them to the writer’s work.