After attending the Friends School Saffron Walden, she studied English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong, the literary critic) and Ursula (later an actress and a children's writer) spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices. In 1943 her family finally settled in Thaxted, Essex, where her parents worked running an educational conference centre. When war was announced, shortly after her fifth birthday, she was evacuated to Wales, and thereafter moved several times, including periods in Coniston Water, in York, and back in London. No one will be more surprised than Charmain by what Howl and Sophie discover.ĭiana was born in London, the daughter of Marjorie (née Jackson) and Richard Aneurin Jones, both of whom were teachers.
Of course, with that magical family involved, there's bound to be chaos-and unexpected revelations. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind? The king and his daughter are desperate to find the lost, fabled Elfgift-so desperate that they've even called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. She has encountered a terrifying beast called a lubbock, irritated a clan of small blue creatures, and wound up smack in the middle of an urgent search. Its single door leads to any number of places-the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and the Royal Mansion, to name just a few.īy opening that door, Charmain has become responsible for not only the house, but for an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard, and a box of the king's most treasured documents. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy.
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