The Wolves of Willoughby Chase: Joan Aiken

A beautiful new paperback edition, featuring a delightful new Afterword by Lizza Aiken - Joan Aiken`s daughter - on how the story came to be written, plus fascinating material from the author`s archive to celebrate the 60th anniversary of this wild, evocative and timeless fantasy.

A fast-paced Dickensian adventure set in an alternative 19th Century England - with wolves! In a period of English History that never happened, when Good King James III is on the throne, and the whole country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. Young orphans Bonnie and Sylvia fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they need all their wits - and the help of Simon the goose-boy - to escape unscathed, for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase.

Illustrated by Pat Marriot and filled with brilliantly-drawn Dickensian characters The Wolves of Willoughby Chase makes an excellent choice for confident pre-teen readers who like a strong plot and good characterisation. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase often appears on lists of the best books for children such as The Telegraph`s Top 100 Best Children`s Books and the BBC`s 100 Books to Read before You`re Fourteen.