C_Oppenheimer
In the land of Ingary, being the eldest of three sisters means you are destined to be a dismal failure the moment you leave home. Sophie Hatter has entirely accepted this, resigned to a quiet life of wire, buckram, and talking to hats in the back room of her family's shop.Down the road, sixteen-year-old Prospero Archibald has also chosen a quiet life. While the magnificent and thoroughly wicked Wizard Howl spends his mornings ruinously wasting expensive oils on his hair and terrorizing the town with his rumblesome, soot-belching black castle, Prospero prefers the company of irregular verbs, dried valerian root, and a perfectly sensible floating tea-kettle. He has absolutely no desire to be grand.
Grandeur is for people who have nothing better to do with their afternoons.
But when a terrifying curse scatters the Hatter sisters and a multi-doored moving castle settles in the hills, Market Chipping descends into a thoroughly chaotic muddle of love spells, stolen hearts, and fragmented magic.With a vain wizard throwing green-slime tantrums, a sharp-tongued fire demon making bargains, and a looming war on the horizon, it will take more than flashy spells to set Ingary right. It might just take a very tidy scholar with a worn grimoire, an analytical mind, and a severe dislike for explosions to keep the chaotic world from completely falling apart.