When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems.
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Sophie, an eighteen-year-old girl turned into an old woman by the Witch of the Waste, takes shelter at the giant, moving castle owned by the handsome wizard Howl and makes a deal with Calcifer, a fire demon held at the castle b