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Deep Secret

By: Diana Wynne Jones
Narrated by: Chris Webster, Harriet Carmichael
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Publisher's Summary

A fantasy adventure about saving the universe one world at a time from Diana Wynne Jones. The companion novel to the bestselling The Merlin Conspiracy.

Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables’ mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on earth he has to find a replacement while also trying to find the lost heir of a collapsing empire, worlds away.

Rupert interweaves the fate lines to get all the candidates together at a sci-fi fantasy convention, and havoc ensues as they all converge on a very strange hotel, where everything is always linked, the walls keep moving, people are trying to kill him, and nothing is as it seems...a magical, epic story from the Godmother of fantasy.

©2013 Diana Wynne Jones (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic Reviews

“....Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears....” ( Publishers Weekly)
“Diana Wynne Jones ought to be crowned with coloured garlands because she is the best writer of magical fantasy for children in this country.” ( Evening Standard)
“Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two...[she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed.” ( SFX)

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I absolutely love this book I’m big fan of Diana Wynne Jones and I love her books so much this book that I really enjoyed about it was having two perspectives and the story was amazing and just excitement of everything yeah I really recommend this book to like 12-year-olds that I love this book so much I would recommend this.

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Would you listen to Deep Secret again? Why?

Definitely. DWJ is one of my favourite authors and this is one of my favourite books by her.

What other book might you compare Deep Secret to, and why?

FIre and Hemlock (which is not on Audible, alas), The Merlin Conspiracy, Enchanted Glass...

Which character – as performed by Chris Webster and Harriet Carmichael – was your favourite?

I've always had a soft spot for the prat Rupert, but I think Zinka comes over beautifully. Maree's voice is not quite right, but then... we have only Rupert's word for the way she sounds.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I always laugh at this one.

Any additional comments?

I want the rest of DWJ's books unabridged, read by these narrators and I want them now. That's all.

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