Howl’s Moving Castle is a story set in a magical land that borders Wales. It is home to Sophie Hatter and her family and many magical creatures and beings. When Sophie’s father dies, her stepmother apprentices her sisters to a baker and a witch and has Sophie as an apprentice in their hat shop. Sophie is cursed and becomes an old woman. She finds refuge with a wizard, and she discovers that she has her own magic. The story becomes a battle between good and evil.
Diana Wynne Jones "is a prolific novelist of enormous range who can raise hairs on the back of the neck one minute, belly laughs the next," asserts Elaine Moss in the Times Literary Supplement. Jones ...
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Contemporary children's fantasy has its own conventions and standards, often unacknowledged but recognized by those who write or publish fantasy. Diana Wynne Jones has built her reputation on challeng...
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Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones