Sophie is a wonderful character in both book and film. Have you read the sequels (I have yet to)?
What's your favourite Diana Wynne Jones? Mine is probably Power of Three though I love Eight Days of Luke and find the Dalemark universe fascinating. I haven't read a lot of her later books -- I grew too old for them as a child, and have only learned recently to return to children's lit.
If you liked Brideshead Revisited, Maurice is definitely worth a try. It has an early Hugh Grant, before he stopped acting and his looks went off, plus a very early Rupert Graves. And there's the most candid m/m sex scene I can recall from films of that era.
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What's your favourite Diana Wynne Jones? Mine is probably Power of Three though I love Eight Days of Luke and find the Dalemark universe fascinating. I haven't read a lot of her later books -- I grew too old for them as a child, and have only learned recently to return to children's lit.
If you liked Brideshead Revisited, Maurice is definitely worth a try. It has an early Hugh Grant, before he stopped acting and his looks went off, plus a very early Rupert Graves. And there's the most candid m/m sex scene I can recall from films of that era.