Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...
A Hat Full of Sky
A Hat Full of Sky
Synopsis
Tiffany Aching is eleven years old and has gone to learn witchcraft properly — apprenticed to Miss Level, a witch with two bodies who lives alone in the hills. But something ancient and predatory has noticed Tiffany: a hiver, a creature that possesses minds and feeds on identity. As it takes over Tiffany's body and the Nac Mac Feegle scramble to rescue her, Granny Weatherwax arrives. The second Tiffany Aching novel, and the book where Tiffany learns what witchcraft actually requires.
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Tiffany AchingProtagonist
Eleven years old and beginning her formal training as a witch — only for a possessing creature to take advantage of the space she has left in herself.
Granny WeatherwaxSupporting
The Disc's most powerful witch, who makes her first direct appearance in Tiffany's story here and whose philosophy of witchcraft shapes everything that follows.
Miss LevelSupporting
A witch with two bodies who occupies them simultaneously — Tiffany's first formal mentor and a patient teacher.
Rob AnybodySupporting
Chief of the Nac Mac Feegle, now serving as Tiffany's frantic protectors against the possessing hiver.
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Edition
A Hat Full of SkyKindle, Oct
440 pages
Clarion Books5 editions available
