The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Award-winning author by Joan Aiken (author) (UK edition)

Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this special edition of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

It’s 19th Century England, 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.

When young orphans Bonnie and Sylvia get caught by the governess, Miss Slighcarp – they need their wits and Simon the goose-boy – to escape unscathed.

For Miss Slighcarp is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase. . .

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141362663

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

July 2nd, 2015

Other details

272 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken was born in 1924 in East Sussex. She didn’t go to school until she was twelve but she read hundreds of books and loved to make up stories. In her early twenties some of her short stories were broadcast by the BBC and she began to make a career out of her writing. She did lots of different jobs including working for the BBC, writing for TV adverts and magazine articles. Her first book was a collection of short stories called All You’ve Ever Wanted.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was one of the first full-length novels Joan wrote and was published in 1962. Originally written as a one-off spoof of the Victorian Gothic adventure stories Joan had read as a child, this book became the inspiration for the series of Wolves Chronicles that followed – a series of fantastic adventures set in her own invented world, a period of history that never happened. Joan was finally able to become a full-time writer and she continued to write books, mostly for children, all her life.