House of Many Ways

Diana Wynne Jones

Sep 2008 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

A chaotically magical sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, from the bestselling children’s author and ‘godmother of fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones.

Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy, but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places – the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, to name but a few.

By opening that door, Charmain is now also looking after an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard and a box of the king's most treasured documents, as well as irritating a clan of small blue creatures.

Caught up in an intense royal search, she encounters an intimidating sorceress named Sophie. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind?

Ratings and reviews

Such an epic trilogy.... This is a great end to the books but just makes one sad that it is the last one of them. Diana gets a lifelike balance of humour and emotion as usual, with amusing characters and almost real magical situations.

Very good book, but this eBook has a terrible layout. The Cover Image is missing (replaced with plane text heading and simple design), images flow off the screen instead of resizing like most eBooks do and text headings and paragraphs are quite a difference in size that changing the size manually doesn't fix anything yet makes it worse.

I know that the books are all basically separate, but is Sophie one of the main characters? Because she's in the description, I just want to skip the "second" book and read this but I won't buy it unless it has Sophie and her family as some sort of main character.

About the author

Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) spent her childhood in Essex and began writing fantasy novels for children in the 1970s. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she enthralled generations of children and adults with her work. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in 1981 and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.