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Charmed Life (Essential Modern Classics)
Diana Wynne Jones
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Description for Charmed Life (Essential Modern Classics)
paperback. Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones classic award-winning favourite, featuring Chrestomanci - now a book with extra bits! Series: Essential Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, (chapter heads line illustrations). BIC Classification: 5AK; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
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 ... Read more
Winner of the Guardian Award.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Condition
New
Series
Essential Modern Classics
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007255290
SKU
9780007255290
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99-2
About Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) spent her childhood in Essex and began writing fantasy novels for children in the 1970s. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she enthralled generations of children and adults with her work. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in 1981 and was twice ... Read more
Reviews for Charmed Life (Essential Modern Classics)
“…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 “Truly ... Read more