A review by bluestarfish
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

4.0

Christopher would just like to play cricket thank you very much. Preferably at the school with all his friends. And not be learning useless magical theory in a stuffy old castle filled with too-busy adults. He does have some cool dreams though, and practical magic is fun.

He wasn't kidding either when in the Charmed Life he said he was rather careless with his lives - we get to know how he looses them now. (Yikes!) It was fun to know more of the current Chrestomanci's backstory, even if it took me way too long to work out who the Living Goddess of Asheth was.