- Forfatter: Terry Pratchett
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 368
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Discworld Novels
- EAN: 9780552173308
- Utgivelsesår: 2019
- Bidragsyter: Pratchett, Terry
''Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent'' The Times
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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''Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It''s the other way around.''
Three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - have gathered on a lonely heath. A king has been cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. An infant heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing . . .
Witches don''t have these kind of dynastic problems themselves ¿ in fact, they don¿t have leaders.
Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don''t have. But even she