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Conrad

The Chrestomanci Series

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Conrad

By: Diana Wynne Jones
Narrated by: Tom Hollander
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A magical adventure from Diana Wynne Jones, set in the worlds of Chrestomanci!

Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances – well, to be brutally honest, he is DOOMED.

Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Stallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate so badly. He has to put an end to them, or he wont last the year. But can any plan really be that simple and straightforward? Of course it can't! And things start to go very strangely for Conrad from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher…

©2005 Diana Wynne Jones (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Science Fiction & Fantasy Heartfelt
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Brilliant no matter what age you are. The narration is superb and really brings the story to life.

Fantastic

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Loved it. Narrator did a great job. Anything with Christopher Chant in it is wonderful.

Another great story from Diana Wynne Jones

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The story is really well read and like all Diana Wynne Jones texts is engaging and entertaining, but really why abridge it. As someone loves the texts I spent much of the book noticing where snippets of the text were removed and then wondering why. With an author as good as this it is wrong to change their creation purely (I assume) to reduce the running time by a few minutes.

A lovely read but why abridged?

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Good plot. However, I was disappointed with Tom Hollander's narration; he is an excellent actor but dreadful narrator. It didn't ruin it, but it detracted from my enjoyment.

Entertaining, but not Wynne-Jones' strongest

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