S E-G-Hopkin

Magic and laundry

A mythical work

issue 12 July 2008

  • House of Many Ways

    Diana Wynne Jones

    HarperCollins, pp. 327

Magic and fantasy seem to occupy an odd tract of land in the world of the novel. Despite an honourable lineage that includes William Morris, Lord Dunsany and J. R. R. Tolkien, there persists a feeling that fantasy is really for children and geeks; it is not a serious art.

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