Hardcover, 269 pages
English language
Published April 1, 2001 by Greenwillow.
The Magicians of Caprona is a children's fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones published by MacMillan Children's Books in 1980. It was the second published of seven Chrestomanci books.It features the venerable Italian family spell-houses Casa Montana and Casa Petrocchi in Caprona, a small independent city-state and duchy.The Chrestomanci books are collectively named for a powerful enchanter and British government official in a world parallel to ours, who supervises the use of magic —or the Chrestomanci, an office that requires a powerful enchanter and is responsible for supervising. The Magicians of Caprona is set in our time, during the tenure of Christopher Chant, who is Chrestomanci in five of the seven books and is often called Chrestomanci as a personal name.
This... had everything, and I loved it to bits. Very, very well executed and the writing was fun. Also elements of Romeo and Juliet all over the place, but shrugs can't have everything, and it didn't lean too heavily on that. Or in the ways it might have.
Chrestomanci #4, featuring a feud between two magician families in a small Italian town and it's up to the children to save both the families and the town from a malevolent enchanter.
