![]() ![]() 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…” ![]() ![]() “…Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. THE TELEGRAPH – 100 Best Books a Child Should Read Her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl and Michael and her quest to break her curse come alive with Diana Wynne Jones’s unique combination of magic, humour and imagination. There Sophie meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the fire demon, with whom she agrees a pact. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls… ĭeciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. ![]() In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. The beloved modern classic, released as an unabridged audiobook for the first time in 2019. Now an animated movie from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, the oscar-winning director of Spirited Away ![]()
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