![]() ![]() It was adapted into a film, with the same title, in 1989. It is described by John Rowe Townsend as "a tale of double-dyed villainy, with right triumphant in the end". Aiken wrote the book over a period of years, with a seven-year gap due to her full-time work the success of this, her second novel, enabled her to quit her job and write full-time. ![]() A large number of wolves have migrated from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via a new "channel tunnel", and terrorise the inhabitants of rural areas. ![]() The novel is the first in the Wolves Chronicles, a series of books set during the fictional early 19th-century reign of King James the Third. Set in an alternative history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp, and their so-called "teacher" at boarding school, Mrs. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1962. ![]()
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