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Charmed Life
Series: Essential Modern Classics
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"One of the wittiest, sharpest children’s fantasies ever written" – Katherine Rundell
Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones classic award-winning favourite, featuring Chrestomanci – now a book with extra bits!
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One of the wittiest, sharpest children’s fantasies ever written – Katherine Rundell
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!
Charmed Life was the winner of the Guardian Award.
Series: Essential Modern Classics
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Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones is celebrated for its blend of laugh-out-loud humour, abundant magic, and imaginative alternate worlds. It carries a sense of seriousness and urgency, connecting its adventurous plots with the readers' emotions and aspirations.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780007255290
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 April 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins
Illustration: (chapter heads line illustrations)
Audience: Primary and secondary education, Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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.
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