“This is how you felt when you were 8 years old, and you opened one of the Fillory books for the first time, and you felt awe and joy and hope and longing all at once.” “This is a feeling that you had, Quentin,” Julia explains, pointing out a delicate little shrub struggling for life. ![]() The garden is in Fillory, the Narnia-like world that appeared in a series of books that they loved as children and that, thrillingly, turned out actually to exist. Toward the end of “The Magician’s Land,” the final volume of Lev Grossman’s wonderful trilogy for grown-ups, Julia and Quentin, both 30-ish, visit a magic garden whose plants are expressions of human emotions.
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