About the book: 2012 / The books of the English writer Diana W. Jones are so bright that they just beg to be shown on the screen. Based on her bestseller Howl's Moving Castle, the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), winner of the Golden Lion, the highest award of the Venice Film Festival, made an animated film that broke the box office record in Japan. In the house of the court sorcerer William Norland, space and time lead themselves according to their own magical laws. The only door leads anywhere - to the bedrooms, to the kitchen, to mountain caves, to the past, and to the royal library. The sorcerer's relative, young Charmain, is forced, willy-nilly, to figure out how a house with character works - and as a result finds herself in the thick of court intrigue. The good king and his daughter are trying to find out why the kingdom fell into decay and find the lost Elven Gift, and for this they call for help the powerful sorceress Sophie - yes, the same one already familiar to readers from “Howl’s Moving” and “Castle in the Air” - and she arrives at the court, accompanied by the fire demon Calcifer and two charming little boys, one of whom is her little son Morgan, but the second has prepared a surprise for everyone... A new story with the participation of old acquaintances - for the first time in Russian!