"Cart and Cwidder" is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger.

Somehow Moril's family and the stranger are becoming bound together in terror, flight, and music.* Diana Wynne Jones is an outstanding writer of fantasy. * The Dalemark Quartet books are for good readers who have enjoyed the Christopher Chant books by the same author.

The books contain the same ability to immerse the reader with real child characters having magical adventures in an imaginary world. * Diana Wynne Jones has won the Guardian Award for fiction and has written over twenty novels in less than twenty years. * Diana Wynne Jones has a huge cult following of avid admirers.