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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Rest
Ran
White
Sheer
Littles
Sheep
Carnivorous
Little
Monsters
Backsides
Legs
Shouting
Turned
Fury
Moved
Attached
Among
Charming

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