Waiting On Wednesday

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

Okay so I haven’t gotten around to reading the books I own by Diana Wynne Jones, but I plan on rectifying that very soon. Needless to say, this lack of intelligence on my part does not prevent me from being beyond excited for DWJ’s upcoming release!

Title: Enchanted Glass
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Synopsis from goodreads.com
As a boy, he had spent fascinated hours looking at the garden through each differently coloured pane. Depending, you got a rose pink sunset garden, hushed and windless; a stormy orange garden, where it was suddenly autumn; a tropical green garden, where there seemed likely to be parrots and monkeys any second. And so on. As an adult now, Andrew valued that glass even more. Magic apart, it was old old old. The glass had all sorts of internal wrinkles and trapped bubbles, and the long-dead maker had somehow managed to make the colours both intense and misty at once.”

When the magician Jocelyn Brandon Hope died he bequeathed Melstone House to his grandson Andrew. He also left his ‘field of care’: an area of strangeness surrounding the land around the house, whose boundary Andrew must walk in order to preserve its power.

Andrew had always loved the house, but he finds owning it a lot more complicated, aside from all the magic. There is Mrs Stock, the tyrannical housekeeper who won’t let him move the furniture and punishes him with her terrible cooking. Just as bad is the obsessive gardener who will only grow giant inedible vegetables. To add to his troubles, twelve year old orphan Aidan Cain suddenly arrives on the doorstep begging protection from magical stalkers, and Andrew’s sinister rich neighbour, Mr Brown, begins to encroach on the ‘field of care’. The one compensation is the gardener’s beautiful niece, Stashe. Things become stranger and stranger until all is made clear with the help of the enchanted glass itself.

Not since HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE has Diana Wynne Jones combined romance and humour so successfully as in this delightful novel with echoes of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.


Hits Shelves: April 1st 2010 by Greenwillow Books

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April is in her 30s and created Good Books And Good Wine. She works for a non-profit. April always has a book on hand. In her free time she can be found binge watching The Office with her husband and toddler, spending way too much time on Pinterest or exploring her neighborhood.
About April (Books&Wine)

April is in her 30s and created Good Books And Good Wine. She works for a non-profit. April always has a book on hand. In her free time she can be found binge watching The Office with her husband and toddler, spending way too much time on Pinterest or exploring her neighborhood.

Comments

  1. Book Chick City says

    Sounds like a fun read.

  2. Juju from Tales of Whimsy says

    Wow. This sounds good. I'm looking forward to your review.

  3. Jake Kirk@Teens Read and Write says

    Howls Moving Castle is one of my all time favorites. Didn't know about this book. Thanks!

    April, since you seemed to think I was insulting you and all female Cosmo readers personally, I was inspired to write another post on the issue. Hopefully, you'll check it out at

    http://teensreadandwrite.blogspot.com/2009/09/cosmo-continued.html

  4. I just gave away a bunch of awards on my blog, and you received one. Or more. I really can't keep track at this point…