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While previously Tiffany aged two years between books (she’s 9 in {{WFM}}, 11 in {{HFOS}} and turns 13 during {{W}}), this book jumps ahead three years as she is 16, as established by [[Preston]]. | While previously Tiffany aged two years between books (she’s 9 in {{WFM}}, 11 in {{HFOS}} and turns 13 during {{W}}), this book jumps ahead three years as she is 16, as established by [[Preston]]. | ||
According to interviews given while it was being written, ''I Shall Wear Midnight'' was originally intended by Pratchett to be the final Tiffany Aching book. | |||
<sup>1</sup>''You can see it [http://www.barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm here].'' | <sup>1</sup>''You can see it [http://www.barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm here].'' | ||
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| I Shall Wear Midnight | |
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| Co-author(s) | no |
| Illustrator(s) | Paul Kidby |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | Sep 2, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0385611072 |
| Pages | |
| RRP | £18.99 |
| Main characters | Tiffany Aching, the Pictsies |
| Series | Tiffany Series |
| Annotations | View |
| 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 title is also a capsule of the thought process of the character Tiffany in regards to her wearing colourful 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. It is also echoed in the track “We Shall Wear Midnight” on the Tiffany Aching-inspired Steeleye Span album Wintersmith, which was released in 2013.
While previously Tiffany aged two years between books (she’s 9 in The Wee Free Men, 11 in A Hat Full of Sky and turns 13 during Wintersmith), this book jumps ahead three years as she is 16, as established by Preston.
According to interviews given while it was being written, I Shall Wear Midnight was originally intended by Pratchett to be the final Tiffany Aching book.
1You can see it here.
Blurb
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
Locations
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