It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

For Charmed Life the first Chrestomanci novel Jones won the 1978 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize a once-in-a-lifetime award by The Guardian newspaper that is judged by a panel of children's writers. There Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor Isobel Armstrong the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their own devices. Works


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Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was an English writer principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.