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Author Sally Gardner, illustrated by David Roberts
Narrator Robert Madge
Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Run Time 4 hours and 53 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories – Romance, love or friendship.

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What to expect

Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half beast half man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He meets the beautiful Safire - pure of heart and spirit, the scheming Mistress Jabber and the terrifying Lady of the Nail. He learns the powers of the tinderbox and the wolves whose master he becomes. But will all the riches in the world bring him the thing he most desires?

Fairy tales are often the cruellest stories of all; in this exquisite novel Sally Gardner writes about great love and great loss.

Read by Robert Madge. Robert Madge is a young actor from Warwickshire. He attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently (2013) a pupil at Ashbourne College. One of his first roles was to perform in Matilda the Musical and has since then had roles in Les Misérables, Oliver and Mary Poppins. Previous audio readings include Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner.

(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd

Critics Review

Dazzling and haunting…a dark and deliciously macabre read with an unexpected twist

The Best New Children's Books 2015

Fast-paced and gripping

Stylist

Profoundly beautiful and thought-provoking … mesmeric … ultimately, we are in the hands of a consummate storyteller who provides her readers with nothing less than a meditation on desire, maturation, reality and death.

INIS Magazine

Luminously written … rich and rewarding

Books For Keeps

A dark but delightful read

SFX Magazine

Exquisite … as dark and captivating as you would hope

The Bookseller

Profoundly beautiful

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