As the star is on the Faerie side of the wall (which is guarded day and night by two men from Wall, precisely to prevent Earthlings from crossing into the unknown dangers of Faerie) Tristran must journey through the Lands Beyond to find it. Tristran, when he grows up to be a young man, fancies himself in love with Victoria Forrester and promises her, when they see a star falling in the distance, to bring the star back for her. Then we meet Dunstan Thorn and find out how he became father to Tristran Thorn who is the main protagonist of the story.
So having watched the film first did colour my appreciation of the book but, though it is different, I think I will love the book equally.We start in Victorian times with an introduction to the town of Wall which lies on the boundary of England and Faerie and guards the gap in the wall that divides them. and the final scenes do depart quite dramatically from the book. Tristran was relieved to be back on something attached to solid ground, and yet, in some way he could never have put into words, he felt disappointed, as if, when his feet touched the earth once more, he had lost something very fine. There are differences between the film and the book some parts are more gory or more forgiving and some parts are less, Captain Shakespeare and the Sky Pirates (as Gaiman notes in the epilogue) are far less of a feature. I love the film of Stardust, which I've seen several times, so I picked up this hardcover re-issued edition of the book.
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