Howl's Moving Castle · Book 1
Howl's Moving Castle
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780060754754
- Type
- novel
About this book
Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel in Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle series, a fantasy title, published in 1986 at 336 pages. It opens the series that ran from 1986 to 2008, and is followed by Castle in the Air.
Its place in Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle is book 1 in the Howl's Moving Castle series. It is followed by Castle in the Air. See the full Howl's Moving Castle reading order.
Howl's Moving Castle opens with a curse: Sophie Hatter, resigned to a dull life running her late father's hat shop because she's the eldest of three sisters in a world where eldest siblings never have adventures, is turned into a ninety-year-old woman by the vain, powerful Witch of the Waste. Rather than despair, Sophie marches into the four-legged, smoke-belching, magically animated castle belonging to the vain, cowardly wizard Howl and installs herself as his cleaning lady, striking up a prickly bargain with…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060754754