Book Review: Cart and Cwidder

First in the Dalemark Quartet, this book by Diana Wynne Jones (author of Howl's Moving Castle) introduces us to Moril, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up in a family of traveling singers and cwidder players. After his father is murdered, everything begins to go wrong, and Moril is forced to flee. Along the way, he must uncover the secrets behind his father's death and learn to use the power of the cwidder.