Jessica Khoury Audiobooks

The Mystwick School of Musicraft: a magic school where the magic is made of music

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Musicraft is an invented word, and a good one. It fuses the two things The Mystwick School of Musicraft runs on, and it announces the book’s best idea before the story has properly started: in this school, magic is neither spoken nor written but played.

Jessica Khoury builds that premise into a sequence our catalogue lists under Mystwick School, on the children and family shelf. The boarding school with a secret curriculum is well-trodden ground, and rightly so. What distinguishes any individual entry is the system underneath it, and a magic made of practice, scales and performance nerves is a system that suits young listeners particularly well.

Everything here comes from the work itself, which is more than enough to be going on with.

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The listener response is the most useful figure on this page: a strong score built on several hundred verdicts, which in children’s fiction usually means families returning to a book rather than one enthusiastic reading.

Suzy Jackson narrates the eight and a quarter hours, a length that suits being taken in instalments quite as well as in solo listening. The first book is the place to start, since the rules of the school and the cost of using them are established there, and a story about learning an art works best when you learn it alongside the character.

Well suited to a car journey with children aboard, and it is listed below.