The Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel. Jeffrey
Holdaway wrote in the New Zealand Art Monthly that this story starts out
as "normal fairytales but slowly become stranger", and that they contain
layers of symbolism similar to that of Lewis Carroll's work. The story
is about a eight-year-old Princess, who lives a lonely life in a castle
in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid,
Lootie, for company. The sequel to this book is The Princess and Curdie.