{"id":2936,"date":"2006-07-07T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:34","slug":"turning-back-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2936","title":{"rendered":"Turning Back the Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Prolific and imaginative British author Diana Wynne-Jones<\/a> is the undisputed queen of the fantastic. Her work inspires both small children and adults with tales of the charming, slightly crazed and magical. Many people are just getting familiar with her due to the popularity of Howl’s Moving Castle<\/a> an animated adaptation of her novel by the ever awesome Hayao Miyazaki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wynne-Jones manipulates plot and tension by mixing a little of the known with the unknown. In A Tale of Time City<\/a>, we are immersed into the known: the chaotic exodus of London’s children into the countryside during the eve of WWII. We are immediately drawn into Vivian Smith’s worried mind as she clutches her possessions and strains to stay unmussed and still and clean on the journey to the unknown Cousin Marty. How awful, to be sent to a relative she doesn’t know, in exchange for safety. And what about her Mum and Dad back in London? Vivian is full of worries, but never in her wildest concerns would strangers, believing she was some nefarious creature, turn up and steal her away — to another dimension. Time City flowers as a place of ultimate strange futuristic marvels — butter pies and low-grav belts, time ghosts and mechanized boats. But not all is different in the future. Deceitful people still exist, and things could go very wrong for everyone, if Vivian doesn’t think what she can do to help. Time City is on the verge of collapse, and Vivian’s got to get home!<\/p>\n

An exciting and fun novel to find again after all this time. Wynne-Jones’ work is timeless, suspensful and enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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