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Charmed Life

By: Diana Wynne Jones
Narrated by: Tom Baker
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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!

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Critic Reviews

"One of the wittiest, sharpest children’s fantasies ever written" – Katherine Rundell

“…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

“Truly magical – guaranteed to leave you gasping – even hotter than Potter”

The Bookseller

“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
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Loved the story, loved Tom Baker's narration! Wish it had not been abridged. Disappointed about that.

Loved it!

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Loved this book as a child and enjoyed it just as much listening to it again as a 29 year old.

Brilliant story and storytelling

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Liked the narrator. There was random musical interludes at breaks in the story, and at least 40 seconds of this music between chapters before the story could continue which was quite irritating

Great story, music irritating

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Great apart from the music, awesome story line. Enjoyed the tale from start to finish

Great apart from the music

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