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Title: Pure Diana Wynne Jones, which means, it's brilliant.
Review: Dalemark is divided between the oppressed, tyrannical South and the more free North. Moril's family is a band of traveling singers between the two earldoms. When his father is killed, Moril must take on his powerful musical instrument, the cwidder, in order to keep his sister, brother, and their passenger, Kialan, safe. But, soon, he finds all them embroiled in the political struggle between the two earldoms. A struggle for their lives. Cart and Cwidder is more standard fantasy, not quite up to DWJ's style of magical twists and turns, but it's definitely DWJ with its clever and refreshing depth to the magical and emotional elements. And, as with all DWJ works, it is a classic. Grade: A
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