![]() ![]() I am also not surprised when I do the maths in my head and figure out that when this book was published in 2010, Sir Terry had been living with his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s for three years. ![]() ![]() The natural progression of Tiffany’s story is to explore what happens when that trust in the local witch falters. It is a bleak start to the novel, but not one that I am surprised about now I have been reading these in order. Tiffany calls it the ‘rough music’, the sound that you hear in your head before something terrible happens. A few pages after that, we get a description of an old lady who was driven from her cottage and starved to death in the snow. In the first thirty pages, we are introduced to Amber Petty, a young girl who loses her baby after her father beats her, and the mob who threaten to come after him. Dark by Discworld standards anyway, and especially dark by Tiffany Aching standards. The first thing that strikes you reading ‘I Shall Wear Midnight’ is that it is dark. ![]()
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