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Peter Ferguson.
When Fern, an Anybody capable of shape-changing, enlists the aid of her ordinary friend Howard, she doesn't tell him it's to do battle with the once-defeated evil Blue Queen who wants to rise again. The intrusion of authorial comments is often irritating and distracting, but the story, rushing from one wildly bizarre adventure to another, is humorous.