Penguin presents an extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Worst Witch read by Gemma Arterton

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at  Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues . . .

Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

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Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

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