Witches abroad / Terry Pratchett.
Series: Discworld novel: Publisher: London : Corgi, 2013Description: 368 p. ; 20 cm001: 42557ISBN: 9780552167505 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Discworld (Imaginary place) -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. | Humorous stories. | Fantasy.DDC classification: 823 PRA LOC classification: PR6066.R34Summary: It seemed an easy job. After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to Genua, things are never that simple.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of modern endeavour' Daily Mail
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 . . .
Fairy godmothers develop a very deep understanding about human nature, which makes the good ones kind and the bad ones powerful.
Inheriting a fairy godmother role seemed an easy job . . . After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince?
Quite hard, actually, even for the witches Granny Weatherwax , Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick . That's the problem with real life - it tends to get in the way of a good story, and a good story is hard to resist.
Servant girls have to marry the prince, whether they want to or not. You can't fight a Happy Ending, especially when it comes with glass slippers and a rival Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse.
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The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Witches Abroad is the third book in the Witches series.
Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1991.
It seemed an easy job. After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to Genua, things are never that simple.
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