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Charmed Life (Essential Modern Classics)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Charmed Life (Essential Modern Classics)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Diana Wynne Jones
SeriesEssential Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780007255290
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
Primary & Secondary Education
Children / Juvenile
Illustrations (chapter heads line illustrations)

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint HarperCollins
Publication Date 2 April 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones classic award-winning favourite, featuring Chrestomanci - now a book with extra bits! Everybody says that Gwendolyn Chant is a gifted witch with astonishing powers, so it suits her enormously when she is taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Her brother Eric (better known as Cat) is not so keen, for he has no talent for magic at all. However, life with the great enchanter is not what either of them expects and sparks begin to fly! Winner of the Guardian Award.

Author Biography

DIANA WYNNE JONES was born in August 1934 in London, where she had a chaotic and unsettled childhood against the background of World War II. The family moved around a lot, finally settling in rural Essex. As children, Diana and her two sisters were deprived of a good, steady supply of books by a father, 'who could beat Scrooge in a meanness contest'. So, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable quest for good books to read, she decided that she would have to write them herself.

Reviews

"!Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones's most outrageous plots to her readers' hopes and fears!" Publishers Weekly