Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light, hidden at the heart of things.
Abarat (2002) is a fantasy novel written and illustrated by Clive Barker, the first in Barker's The Books of Abarat series. It is aimed primarily at young adults. The eponymous Abarat is a fictional archipelago which is the setting for the majority of the story.
