When Tiffany's little brother disappears, just as the baron's son did a few years earlier, all signs point to mystical mischief. After an encounter with a rather nasty water sprite, wherein Tiffany uses her brother Wentworth as bait, she has gotten the attention of the local critters, in particular the Nac Mac Feegle, a fierce little blue warrior clan with bemusing accents, little being the operative word as they're only six inches high. But it seems that, despite what other witches think, the chalk views Tiffany as a witch. The thing is, nobody told Tiffany that witches aren't bred on the chalk, it's not proper steading. Because if her grandmother was still alive she would have protected the little old lady, because them that can has to stand up to them that can't. First off, being a brunette, she's not exactly princess material, secondly, ever since the day a harmless little old lady was killed because she was suspected of being a witch, Tiffany decided she'd grow up to be a witch and prove those fairy tales wrong.
She's never quite trusted the fairy stories that show the princesses as blond and blue eyed and the witches as all being evil and likely to entice you into a candy covered cottage. "Tiffany Aching has grown up on the chalk surrounded by sheep. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself.
Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle-aka the Wee Free Men-a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. The first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Ī nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality.Īrmed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland.
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