Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular.
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. 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. (On the other hand, some time passes in Wintersmith, so it’s possible she was older by its end this might explain why some characters in this book say she kissed the Winter about two years earlier.)Īccording to interviews given while it was being written, I Shall Wear Midnight was originally intended by Pratchett to be the final Tiffany Aching book.Ī man with no eyes. 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), in this book she is “nearly sixteen”, a jump of three years. 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. It is also a callback to the end of A Hat Full of Sky, regarding the cloak that the hiver bought while possessing her. 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. 1 Despite a superficial similarity, there is no evidence to link the two works. This is the title that most people would recognise, however it is interesting that the correct title for her poem is “Warning”. The title is loosely based upon the poem “When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple” by Jenny Joseph. I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth Tiffany Aching novel, published September 2, 2010. |y .All data relates to the first UK edition. |a Aching, Tiffany (Fictitious character) |v Juvenile fiction. |a Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches. |a I shall wear midnight / |c Terry Pratchett.
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