Notes

Denzil is an 11-year-old apprentice wizard. He is given a warning of trouble for his master, the great wizard Valvasor. The only way Denzil can warn him in time is to use one of Valvasor’s magic spells, but in the hands of the apprentice, this goes horribly wrong. The time travel spell goes wrong (because he is not good at sums) and Denzil finds himself in Samantha’s family home in 1991. As he tries to correct his mathematical calculations to take him back to Spy Wednesday in 1291 some funny misunderstandings arise. Denzil has appeared in the McAllisters' back yard, seven centuries into the future, and he must work out how he can convince them that he really is a medieval wizard so he can get back to warn Valvasor? The interaction of the unusual characters; Sam’s out-of-work actor father, her sister’s gentle, scientific bikey boyfriend, assertive 12-year-old Sam, with Denzil’s medieval outlook all create a lively story. Family relationships are humorously ‘real’. As a bonus we learn a little about relativity and medieval religious observations.