The Dalemark Quartet · Book 2
Drowned Ammet
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780060298722
- Type
- novel
About this book
Drowned Ammet (1977), at 320 pages substantially longer than the opener, jumps back to an earlier era of Dalemark's history to follow Mitt, a boy radicalized by his father's execution.
Its place in The Dalemark Quartet
Drowned Ammet is book 2 in the The Dalemark Quartet series. It follows Cart and Cwidder. It is followed by The Spellcoats. See the full The Dalemark Quartet reading order.
The Dalemark Quartet is Diana Wynne Jones's most ambitious secondary-world fantasy, built not around one continuing hero but around a single invented country, Dalemark, seen at different, widely separated points in its own history. Cart and Cwidder follows Moril, a boy in a family of traveling musicians whose father is secretly running messages for the political resistance in the harsh, feudal North, and who inherits a magical singing instrument, a cwidder, with far more power than anyone realizes. Drowned Ammet…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060298722