A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones

Accounting for company, it's not saying much, I know. While Vivian is not the sharpest of tools in the shed, she is the only sane person here. The idea is quite interesting, but the book is surprisingly tedious to slog through. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.I have many feelings about this, but few of them are good.

A powerfully moving story about children who are, quite literally, racing through time to save their world.-'Publishers Weekly,' starred review. This edition of Jones' s classic 1987 novel features an Introduction by another masterful, award-winning writer: Ursula K. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own time. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. A thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones-with an introduction by Ursula K. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Ĭopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. And to her fans, this will be one of the few things about her new book which will come as no surprise! Michael Cart, Beverly Hills Public Lib. All of these gifts are in abundant evidence in A Tale of Time City which is, accordingly, absolutely first-rate entertainment. This ability to surprise has become a Diana Wynne Jones signature, as have her unflagging inventiveness and almost uncanny ability to create imaginary worlds of resounding reality, a capacity based in part on her attention to detail and in part on her capacity to create believable and sympathetic characters. That almost nothingwhether person or incidentis precisely what it appears to be at first encounter both complicates Vivian's task and delights readers. If Vivian is to return to her own world and time, it will be necessary for her to help her kidnappers foil the Time Lady first. Time City observers, Viv learns, have reason to believe that the Time Lady, the wife of the founder of Time Citya mysterious Merlin figureis at large in history and is busily altering it, thereby endangering not only the historical world but Time City itself. Instead she is kidnapped by two youthful time travellers who mistake her for the ``Time Lady'' and whisk her off to Time City, a richly imagined alternative world which exists in time but not in history. When 11-year-old Vivian Smith is evacuated from London in 1939, she expects to end up in the peaceful British countryside. Grade 6 Up High-spirited time travel fantasy that is sure to delight its readers.

A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones