A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones

But when they're sent on an impossible mission together, Aileen realises she might be more special than she thought. Aileen is convinced she'll never become a Wise Woman like her Aunt Beck. The Islands of Chaldea was Diana's last published novel and was completed by her sister Ursula Jones.

Welcome to the world of Diana Wynne Jones, where magical characters take fantastical journeys through lands, space and time. This exclusive ebook collection of three titles contains A Tale of Time City, The Homeward Bounders, and her final published novel (completed by her sister Ursula Jones), The Islands of Chaldea.

There are bits that almost sing, but.Come on a journey through the magical worlds of the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones. If you like lots of detail, if you don't mind not having a clue for much of the time, if you can appreciate great inventiveness, you might like this one.especially, judging by Stella Matutina's review, if you are a child.I was a grown-up when I read this for the first time, and am still a grown-up, so I never got to read it with the (cliche alert) bright wonder of the child mind. I never quite grasped the whole Point of Time City's existence, or why people traipsed around through time.and so, time travel-wise, it didn't engage me, and by the time the Exciting Final Showdown happened, I wasn't all that sure I cared. And time travel-wise, it's a bit of an amusement park ride, rather than a finely wrought immersive experience. To many things, and people, and little bits of plot that never coalesce to make magic happen. This is my least favorite Diana Wynne Jones I had hoped, this second time through it, that I would fall for it, but it was not to be. To try to keep that from happening, Vivien, the two boys, and a helpful android set off to whisk through the ages, searching for the lost artifacts that will stabilize Time City, and, in a temporally rippling way, all of the past.but someone is to be working against them, and none of their plans are working out. Vivien can readily accept that the twentieth century was unstable, time-wise but it's a bit harder to grasp that Time City itself, with its elaborate edifices and artifacts accumulated over the centuries, is about to collapse. She's just an ordinary girl, not the powerful twister of time they had hoped to capture. There, far from the familiarities of home, she finds herself in a pickle of twisted time, and Jonathan and Sam, would-be-heroes, find they have the wrong Vivien Smith. Vivien Smith was being evacuated from London in WW II when her trip to the country turned out to be much more than she bargained for-she ended up kidnapped by two boys from the future, and whisked off to Time City. A Tale of Time City, by Diana Wynne Jones (1987)

A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones