Book:I Shall Wear Midnight

I Shall Wear Midnight
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Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	Sep 2, 2010
ISBN	0385611072
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Main characters	Tiffany Aching, the Pictsies
Series	Tiffany Series
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Notes	The fourth Tiffany Aching book
All data relates to the first UK edition.

I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth Tiffany Aching novel, published September 2, 2010.

The title is loosely based upon the poem "When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" by Jenny Joseph. This is the title that most people would recognise, however it is interesting that the correct title for her poem is "Warning".¹ Despite a superficial similarity, there is no evidence to link the two works. The most senior and junior witches look set to have interesting times together!

The title is also a capsule of the thought process of the character Tiffany in regards to her wearing colorful clothing despite being a witch. It is also a callback to the end of A Hat Full of Sky, regarding the cloak that the hiver bought while possessing her.

If the aging tradition of the Tiffany books continued (every book leaps 2 years: in Wee Free Men Tiffany is 9, in A Hat Full of Sky, 11, and in Wintersmith, 12 and 13) then Tiffany should be 15 in this book; however it established by the character Preston that she is 16.

¹You can see it here

Synopsis

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head ...It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He's hunting for Tiffany. And he's found her…. A fabulous Discworld title filled with witches and magic and told in the inimitable Terry Pratchett style, "I Shall Wear Midnight" is the fourth Discworld title to feature Tiffany and her tiny, fightin', boozin' pictsie friends, the Nac Mac Feegle (aka The Wee Free Men).

Main Characters

• Tiffany Aching
• The Cunning Man
• Jeannie
• Letitia Keepsake
• Nac Mac Feegle
• Deirdre Parsley, lately Lady Keepsake / The Duchess
• Amber Petty
• Preston
• Roland
• Eskarina Smith

Minor Characters & Cameos

• Joe Aching
• Wentworth Aching
• Sally Cambric
• Death
• Magrat Garlick
• Mrs Happenstance
• Nanny Ogg
• Seth Petty
• Molly Petty
• Mrs Proust
• Granny Weatherwax
• Members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
  • Wee Mad Arthur
  • Haddock
  • Carrot Ironfoundersson
  • Nobby Nobbs
  • Captain Angua von Überwald
  • Sam Vimes

Locations

• Ankh-Morpork
  • Unreal Estate
• The Chalk
  • Home Farm
• Keepsake Hall

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