LA CITTA' DEL TEMPO

After HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, Diana Wynne Jones, the acclaimed Queen of Fantasy for Young Readers, tells us a new adventure rich in space-time portals, in an exciting race against time where past, present, and future intertwine! It is an entire Wandering City in space-time from whose portals it is possible to reach any place and moment in History. It was built in antiquity by Faber John, whose existence has been lost between history and legend. It is close to its end, and is about to disintegrate due to the Lady of Time. Vivian Smith, an unaware girl evacuated from London during the bombings of 1939, is kidnapped by the young Jonathan and Sam and taken to their incredible City of Time, where the authorities seem more dedicated to celebrating rituals and ceremonies rather than taking concrete action to save the place where they live and from which they watch over History. Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Vivian Smith is actually the Lady of Time, and therefore think they can solve the problem on their own... before discovering that their intervention may have destabilized the entire course of History!