This was my first Diana Wynne Jones book and I’ve been obsessed ever since, even though I didn’t actually start reading the rest until I was much older.

I first found this book when I was about 9 in the school library and I don’t know how many times I’ve read it since. I found it in my secondary school library too and read it and read it and read it and read it.

Since joining Amazon, I bought a lot of her books because they didn’t really seem to appear in the local bookshop most annoyingly and Amazon is a great way of finding out what books are like rather then ordering them in via bookshops.

I’ve been a fan of hers for so long. I love Dogsbody still and count it among my favourite ever books. I don’t know why, it’s a good book, very good book and perhaps she has written better. But it captured my imagination as a kid and despite having read it a hundred times, it still captures it now.