Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones
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Charmed Life

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2008


Synopsis

Guardian Award for Children's Fiction (UK)American Bookseller Pick of the Lists A bewitching comic fantasy by a master of the supernatural Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack.

About Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Married to the medievalist J. A. Burrow, with whom she had three sons, she lived for many years in Bristol, the setting for many of her books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on March 16, 2025

I've just finished reading this to my daughter Celyn (11, too disabled to read for herself). It's a fun story of Cat and his witchy sister Gwendolin living in a world that's almost ours but where witches and wizards exist and are well-known. Like an enormous wedge of literature it's one of those adve......more

Goodreads review by mark on February 27, 2013

this is a winning intro to what looks to be an enjoyable children's fantasy series. the young Chant siblings exist in a world with magic, one of many such worlds - or, rather, dimensions. after a tragic accident that leaves them orphans, older sister and talented witch Gwendolen takes to learning ma......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 05, 2019

My kids got super into this, trying to figure out why Gwendolen was so horrible and why Cat put up with it. Reading it aloud made me realize how deceptively simple it is, which sometimes made it seem like there was a lot of padding for such a small book, but it all came into play later. Which was ha......more

Goodreads review by Sankara Jayanth on January 13, 2018

I guess I'll read the complete series, this book was good. While reading this, I realized that J. K. Rowling might have had some inspiration from this series for Harry Potter, not in terms of story or characters, but the fantasy and magical elements. The name 'You know who', the moving paintings, che......more

Goodreads review by J. Aleksandr on October 16, 2020

On the evolution chart of middle-grade fantasy stories, Jones' Chrestomanci appears somewhere between E. Nesbitt and Harry Potter - closer to the latter than the former, both chronologically and artistically. In fact, one sees in Charmed Life many of the original ingredients Rowling snapped up for P......more