Chrestomanci · Book 4
The Lives of Christopher Chant
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780008718909
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1988, The Lives of Christopher Chant is the fourth entry, extending to 336 pages, going back to tell Christopher's own boyhood before he became Chrestomanci -- the book some editions place first in internal chronological order.
Its place in Chrestomanci
The Lives of Christopher Chant is book 4 in the Chrestomanci series. It follows Witch Week. It is followed by Mixed Magics. See the full Chrestomanci reading order.
Chrestomanci is Diana Wynne Jones's longest-running series, built around a deceptively simple idea: in a multiverse of parallel worlds where magic works, someone with nine lives has to be appointed as a kind of government enchanter, keeping ordinary witches and wizards from causing catastrophes across worlds that don't all know magic is real. That role belongs to the elegant, maddeningly evasive Christopher Chant, who appears in every book but is rarely the narrator -- instead, each novel follows a different…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008718909