THE WITCH OF BLACKBERRY BOTTOM

Puffin Audiobooks, UK, 1999.  ISBN 0-14-180030-5.  2 audio cassette tapes with an approx. playing time of 1 ¾ hours, still in manufacture’s shrink wrap.  Read by Prunella Scales.  ‘Everyone in the village of Blackberry Bottom thinks that Miss Slade is a witch.  She wears a patch over one eye, she lives in a dirty old caravan with a host of animals and, to tell the truth, she’s a bit smelly.  Patsy and Jim Reader are new to Blackberry Bottom.  Although Miss Slade seems rather unusual, she doesn’t appear to them to be a witch.  Patsy and Jim’s parents aren’t so sure and forbid them from visiting her.  Luckily the resourceful Miss Slade has some ideas of her own …’ (from rear case)