Seeing as I enjoyed The Faery Handbag so much, I thought I'd also check out Magic For Beginners, Kelly Link's multi award nominated novella.
I absolutely loved it. It's about a boy and his friends and his family and the weird TV programme that they all love. It has all the same great qualities as The Faery Handbag: it made me happy, sad, it made me think, it made we wish crazily for a moment that I was a teenager again. The style pulled me in and I just didn't want to stop reading. I hated the end, because it ended. I wanted it to carry on forever.
Again, not SF and sort-of Fantasy, I really can't recommend Magic For Beginners enough. Read it.
