![]() ![]() ![]() The craze was white knitting, white and clean and fluffy, which you kept wrapped in a towel so that it would stay clean. They were always more than usually pleased with themselves at the start of a craze. She neatly interweaves the dramatic plot with knowing descriptions of school life, as when lumpen Nan warily observes the popular girls: "At lessons, she discovered that Theresa and her friends had started a new craze. Jones skillfully and seamlessly switches from one point of view to another, creating a comic companion piece to Lord of the Flies as she shows with perfect understanding the way children torment each other-and save each other. Could it be fat Nan or sluggish Charles? Mysterious Nirupam or shifty-eyed Brian? By the climax of the book (which, by the way, involves saving the world), being a witch has become a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame. Clearly it's not the popular Simon or the perfect Theresa. ![]() With witty, erudite writing, Jones tells of the adventures of the class of 6B as they set about to discover who among them is a witch. Jones plunks her readers directly into the life of Larwood House, a school in a present-day England that's a lot like the world we know, except for one major difference: witches are everywhere, and they are ruthlessly hunted by inquisitors. ![]() And, in the alternate reality described in Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week, that's not at all a good thing to be. ![]()
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