one last gift

Well, that was a lovely surprise. I was poking around Amazon the other day,(yes, I still shop there, no I don’t care to discuss it) wondering if Diana Wynne Jones had written anything I hadn’t heard about …. and I found a new book. Apparently, when she died she left behind the uncompleted manuscript for The Islands of Chaldea, and her sister Ursula Jones (also a writer)has finished it. She’s done a gorgeous job; it sounds like Diana didn’t take notes and did write stories more or less in order, so that Ursula had to figure out how to finish the plot, but I can’t tell where one author leaves off and the other begins. This isn’t the best book the older sister ever wrote (the competetition is stiff for that), but it belongs among her good ones, I think.

The Islands of Chaldea: Amazon | Powell’s