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Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson’s cult classicsEngland in the future – but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes – a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to a more primitive lifestyle. It is a time of hardship and fear…When 16-year-old Geoffrey, a “weathermonger” starts to repair his uncle’s motorboat, he and his sister Sally are condemned as witches. Fleeing for their lives, they travel to France – where they discover that everything is normal. Returning to England, they set out to discover why the country is under this mysterious spell. Only discovering the origin of the deadly magic will allow them to set the people free of its destructive influence.Peter Dickinson began writing the books after he'd had a nightmare. The trilogy is not sequential; rather, each book explores a different aspect of England during the time that simply became known as The Changes.

From the 20th century to the Dark Ages overnight. Such is the fate that befalls Britain. Machines are shunned, and witchcraft becomes the order of the day. Superstition and all the narrowness of the medieval era are the way of the populace, and those who believe in science flee the island. To this strangely changed land, two return to seek the source of the blight that has altered tha natural laws. Geoffrey, the condemned weathermonger of Weymouth, and his sister slip back, take over a still-functioning Rolls Royce Silver Ghost and follow the lightning to a terrifying confrontation between myth and science.