The Changes Trilogy
The Weathermonger, Heartsease, and The Devil's Children
by Peter Dickinson
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Pub Date Jan 27 2015 | Archive Date Apr 27 2015
Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Description
Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines. Abandoning their cars on the roads and destroying their own factories, many flee the cities for the countryside, where they return to farming and an old-fashioned life.
When families are split apart and grown-ups forget how they used to live, young people face unexpected challenges. Nicola Gore survives on her own for nineteen days before she's taken in by a Sikh family that still remembers how to farm and forge steel by hand. Margaret and Jonathan brave the cold and risk terrible punishment in order to save a man's life and lift the fog of fear and hate that's smothering their village. And Geoffrey and his little sister, Sally, escape to France only to be sent back to England on a vital mission: to make their way north to Wales, alone, and find the thing under the stones that shattered civilization—the source of the Changes.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781504001380 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 124126
On the face of it, these 3 books are just showing different time periods of The Changes, but as you read you discover they're more intertwined.
In the first book (The Devil's Children) we see the beginning of it all, the sudden horror and turning on machines, the panic, and the blissful forgetfulness once they have all been destroyed. We also follow an unusual path: a young girl, Nicky, joins a group of Sikhs - apparently less affected than others - as they find a place to settle. Considered the Devil's Children by the locals, they still have to protect their own, and be able to trade for what they need.
Britain is now back in the Dark Ages, with witch hunts searching for those who try to use machines still. In book 2, Heartsease, the antipathy towards machines is beginning to slip, but only for some people. Jonathan and Margaret live on tenterhooks, trying to keep away from the dangerous Mr. Gordon but are coming to understand that something is wrong, and it's not witches or machines. Surely it's not right to stone people, even if they're designated as witches?
In book 3, Weathermonger, Geoffrey and Sally sense things are drawing to a close, risking their lives to reach freedom... and then again, to try to free everyone else. What they find is nothing I'd ever expected, but it reminds us all to heed dire warnings.
I loved some of the plot details, especially centering the first book on a group of Sikhs, and Margaret's loyalty to her pony Scrub, and enjoyed reading the enhanced information about Peter Dickinson at the end. It's always interesting to learn the context for favorite authors' writings.
Peter Dickinson is moving right up there with my favorite authors now. I love authors who don't dumb their writing down for children, and the beautiful flow of these is not to be missed.
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