I shall wear midnight5/8/2023 ![]() There, with the assistance of the spectacularly argumentative, kilt-wearing, wee but hardy Nac Mac Feegle, she tends to the needs of her village, always riding a knife-edge between being useful and being an object of suspicion who meddles in unmentionables.īut Tiffany's skills as a witch have caught the attention of the Cunning Man (surely one of Pratchett's spookiest villains), a no-eyed spectre who menaces our heroine as she goes about the business of seeing her village through a change in baron.įans of Pratchett will find much here to love, not least the fact that Tiffany is a younger, livelier, possibly humbler version of one of his most-loved creations - Granny Weatherwax. ![]() ![]() ![]() I Shall Wear Midnight picks up Tiffany's story as she settles - or not - into life as "town witch" on The Chalk, taking care of the things people generally don't like to think about. You'd think it'd be hard finding things to say about Terry Pratchett and his Discworld creations, given that I Shall Wear Midnight is his 39th novel set in the parallel world and the fourth in a young adult series starring teenage witch Tiffany Aching.Īnd yet the modern master of comic fantasy always leaves you with things to ponder long after his characters have sailed/flown/limped into the sunset. ![]()
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