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Copyright © 1977 by Joan Aiken Enterprises, Ltd.;
first appeared in The Far Forests, published by Viking Press;
reprinted by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.

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Joan Aiken is the author of over sixty books for adults and children, perhaps the best known of which are The Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. She still types all her novels on a typewriter, never having moved onto a computer. Aiken lives in Sussex, England, with her husband.



Joan Aiken (1924–2004) was the author of over sixty books for adults and children, perhaps the best known of which are the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. We published an Author Focus issue about her and her work in 2001.
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