Black Maria

By: Diana Wynne Jones

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Hardcover | 1 May 1991

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When Meg and Chris go to stay with an aunt in the claustrophobic town of Cranberry-on-Sea, Chris falls so foul of the witches' coven that flourishes there that he is turned into a wolf.

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In the wake of the Harry Potter phenomenon, Black Maria, an old favourite from well-loved children's writer Wynne Jones, has been dressed up in Hess's appealing illustrations and marched back out onto our bookshelves. When Mig, a young writer, goes to Cranberry-on-Sea with her mother and brother Chris to look after aged Aunt Maria, she soon has a few questions. Why do the townswomen gather around Aunt Maria under her sugar-coated command while the zombie-like men skulk around in silence? Why are the only children in town shut up in a forbidding orphanage? If the family car really crashed into the sea, killing Mig's errant father, how could she have seen it parked in Cranberry? Mig and Chris set out to solve the mystery with the help of the ghost in Chris's bedroom, and they are soon up to their necks in magic and mayhem. The book is lots of fun, but is also unafraid to explore the darker side of human nature. In Aunt Maria's stifling politeness we see how people control others through passive aggression. Through the women's domination of their men, we learn that power must be balanced. With Mig we find out that repressed feelings suffocate personal freedom. And with ghosts, curses, people transformed into animals, time travel and dark secrets from the past, Black Maria will delight Pottermaniacs everywhere. (Kirkus UK)

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