It was a disappointment to her, but she was stillhappy enough, looking after her sisters and grooming Martha to seekher fortune when the time came. She read a greatdeal, and very soon realized how little chance she had of aninteresting future. Hatter was proud of his three daughters and sent them all to thebest school in town. Fanny treated all three girlswith the same kindness and did not favor Martha in the least.Mr. This ought to have made Sophie and Lettie into Ugly Sisters,but in fact all three girls grew up very pretty indeed, though Lettie wasthe one everyone said was most beautiful. Fanny shortly gave birth to the third sister,Martha.

True, her own mother diedwhen Sophie was just two years old and her sister Lettie was one yearold, and their father married his youngest shop assistant, a prettyblonde girl called Fanny. Her parents were well to do and kept a ladies’ hat shop inthe prosperous town of Market Chipping. She was not even thechild of a poor woodcutter, which might have given her some chanceof success. Everyone knows you are the one whowill fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek yourfortunes.Sophie Hatter was the eldest of three sisters.

Howl’s Moving Castle By: Diana Wynne JonesĬhapter 1  In which Sophie talks to hatsIn the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. He had 'asked me to write a book titled The Moving Castle.' Keywords: Diana Wynne Jones,Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (doxyerfre),Howl's Moving Castle WorldCat reports that Howl's Moving Castle is the author's work most widely held in participating libraries, followed by its first sequel Castle in the Air.įor the idea Jones 'very much' thanked 'a boy in a school I was visiting', whose name she had noted but lost and forgotten. This series also includes Castle in the Air, published in 1990, and House of Many Ways, published in 2008. Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel in the series of books called the Howl Series. In 2004 it was adapted as an animated film of the same name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and it won the Phoenix Award twenty years later, recognizing its rise from relative obscurity. Description: Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York.

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