There are people who leave their childhood forever: one day they suddenly become serious and important, and 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 country. The new autobiographical book of the French writer is full of images, melodies and smells - yes, smells: of a country house, a summer garden, antiquity - their you almost physically feel everything when reading. And it is scents that best provoke memories. The grown-up 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 doesn’t tell much on its own. 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 from 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 one 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 publishing house “Compass Guide” continues to introduce them to the writer’s work.