A HAT FULL OF SKY

Tiffany Aching is going into service to be a lady no less a maid in a big house At least this is what she tells her parents Really Tiffany is going away to learn magic But making friends with fellow witches is always difficult when an invisible being that cannot be killed takes over your body stealing money and threatening violence Tiffany must use all her witchy cunning to reclaim what s hers Luckily she has a bit of help What s tiny Scottish and blue all over A Nac Mac Feegle of course the rudest type of fairy and handy to have in a tight spot Oodles of dry wit imagination and shrewdly observed characters Independent on Sunday