After braving a treacherous journey through snow-covered wastes, Sylvia joins her cousin Bonnie in the warmth and safety of Willoughby Chase. They narrowly avoid a gory lupine death, but with Bonnie's parents overseas and the evil governess, Miss Slighcarp, left in charge, they find their human predatorsmore dangerous.
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After braving a treacherous journey through snow-covered wastes, Sylvia joins her cousin Bonnie in the warmth and safety of Willoughby Chase. They narrowly avoid a gory lupine death, but with Bonnie's parents overseas and the evil governess, Miss Slighcarp, left in charge, they find their human predatorsmore dangerous.
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This was a nice little book with some refreshing variations on the stereotypes within orphan-adventure fiction. Worth the read.
Corgi
Mar 9, 2009
Dark fun for all ages
Long before Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, there was the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series, a world where heroic children are beset by wolves, work houses, dark plots against good King Jamie - a colorful, kindly Scot who never was the King of England - and many more dangers and difficulties.
Not a good series, perhaps, for the extremely sensitive or high-strung - there are some really bad people, awful circumstances, some sadness - but enthralling for anyone with a sense of adventure and whimsy. Joan Aiken is a wonderful writer - very gifted with language, plot and characters - and there's at least a touch of magic in everything she's written.