The Dalemark Quartet · Book 3
The Spellcoats
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN-13
- 9780613360159
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Spellcoats (1979) reaches back furthest of all into Dalemark's near-mythic past at 289 pages, following a family exiled from their river village who discover the coats they're weaving carry a literal, dangerous magic of their own -- published third in Diana Wynne Jones's quartet though set earliest in the country's history.
Its place in The Dalemark Quartet
The Spellcoats is book 3 in the The Dalemark Quartet series. It follows Drowned Ammet. It is followed by Crown of Dalemark. 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 9780613360159