AuthorMarcus Sedgwick
NarratorMartin Jarvis
Duration2h 35m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherOrion
VersionUnabridged
Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded: Lord Valevine Otherhand is too busy trying to invent the unthinkable and discover the unknowable, his wife, Minty, is too absorbed in her latest obsession - baking, and ten-year-old Cudweed is running riot with his infernal pet monkey. Only Solstice, the black-haired, poetry-writing Otherhand daughter, seems to pay any attention. As the lower storeys of the castle mysteriously begin to flood, and kitchen maids continue to go missing, the family comes ever closer to the owner of the black tail...
