You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.' So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. ‘Tiding up is what I’m here for!’ she shouted at Howl. ‘Then you must think of a new meaning for you life,’ Howl said.

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.