Nesbit created an innovative body of work that combined realistic, contemporary children in real-world settings with magical objects what would now be classed as contemporary fantasy and adventures and sometimes travel to fantastic worlds. Hardling's Luck is a sequel to The House of Arden, a great favorite of Nesbit fans; it's a story of injustice, poverty, deformity, magic, romance, suspense, sacrifice, and triumph over adversity that comes to its point with a fateful twist. . . ."