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Howl’s Moving Castle
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Narrator
- Kristin Atherton
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 19 December 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.8 (8 reviews)
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What to expect
‘One of the greatest ever writers for children’ – Garth Nix
‘A true original’ – Katherine Rundell
‘Truly magical … Guaranteed to leave you gasping’ The Bookseller
‘She is the best writer of magical fantasy for children’ Evening Standard
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 . . .
Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls…
There Sophie meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the fire demon, with whom she agrees a pact. 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.
Critics Review
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"One of the greatest ever writers for children" – Garth Nix
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"A true original" – Katherine Rundell
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“Imaginative and terribly funny” – Michael Morpurgo
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“Wit and humor glint from the pages" – THE HORN BOOK
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Praise for Diana Wynne Jones
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“…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
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“Diana Wynne Jones ought to be crowned with coloured garlands because she is the best writer of magical fantasy for children in this country ” – Evening Standard
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“Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two … [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.” – SFX
User Reviews
Book 4.8
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
I adore this book! Different from the movie but absolutely amazing. Love the characters and the magic and the narrator did a great job bringing it to life. 100% recommend if you want a cosy, whimsical, lighthearted, fantasy.
Izzy <3 2025-11-27
Details
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Narrator
- Kristin Atherton
- Duration
- 8 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 December 2019
- ISBN
- 9780008389475
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.8(8 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(8 reviews)
Synopsis
‘One of the greatest ever writers for children’ – Garth Nix ‘A true original’ – Katherine Rundell ‘Truly magical … Guaranteed to leave you gasping’ The Bookseller ‘She is the best writer of magical fantasy for children’ Evening Standard 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 . . . Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls… There Sophie meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the fire demon, with whom she agrees a pact. 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.
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