Growing up, I was fortunate to be surrounded by books. I can still remember the incredible feeling of losing myself in a book, traveling to a new place, another time, and inviting wonderful characters into my head.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (Jonathan Cape, 1962) is probably my all time favorite. I still remember getting it for Christmas, and the look on my mother’s face when I first clapped eyes on the book. She knew I would love it, and she was right. It is spooky and haunting, in a ‘not-too-scary’ way.
I misplaced my original copy — a crime, I know. So I recently acquired this original, first edition hardcover copy from a British bookseller on eBay. The book is still available in a revised format on Amazon for next to nothing, but I wanted the book jacket I remembered as a child. I won’t tell you how much it cost unless you ply me with wine, then I might be persuaded to spill.
This is one I haven’t read. I’ll put it on my list. The book cover is beautiful by the way.
You’ll enjoy it, and if you have a young girl in your life, get her a copy, she’ll love it too!
I have never read this book, but the kids and I watched the movie recently. Good story!
OMigosh, there’s a movie? I’ll have to check that out =)
It might have been a made-for-television movie, or something along those lines.
Do you get Netflix? Because that’s where we found it.