Age Group: 9 - 12 Years, 12+ Years

Description:

Twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic is, apparently, doomed. According to his shifty Uncle Alfred, Conrad has been saddled with such terrible bad karma that his only hope is to sneak into glittering Stallery Mansion disguised as a footman, find the mysterious person who has been pulling magical "possibilities" to alter reality across the whole town — and then bump them off! It sounds simple enough. But everything goes wonderfully sideways the moment Conrad meets his fellow servant-in-training, the dashing, infuriating, supremely self-confident Christopher Chant, who happens to be on a secret mission of his own from another world entirely. Tea trays, time-shifts, alternate realities and outrageous family secrets collide in a glorious upstairs-downstairs caper from one of fantasy's true greats. Witty, twisty, sparklingly clever and brimming with magical mischief — vintage Diana Wynne Jones at her absolute best.