Witches Abroad

Witches Abroad is the twelfth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, originally published in 1991. Following the death of Witch, Desiderata Hollow, Magrat Garlick is sent her magic wand, for Desiderata was not only a witch, but also a Fairy Godmother. Having deferred the wand to Magrat, she effectively makes Magrat the new Fairy Godmother to a young woman called Emberella - also known variously as Ella and Embers and a parody of Cinderella. Sadly, D... more

Witches Abroad is the twelfth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, originally published in 1991. Following the death of Witch, Desiderata Hollow, Magrat Garlick is sent her magic wand, for Desiderata was not only a witch, but also a Fairy Godmother. Having deferred the wand to Magrat, she effectively makes Magrat the new Fairy Godmother to a young woman called Emberella - also known variously as Ella and Embers and a parody of Cinderella. Sadly, Desiderata does not give Magrat any instruction on the use of the wand, so pretty much anything that Magrat points it at becomes a pumpkin. This leaves several animals around Magrats' cottage now as pumpkins, one of which still thinks it is a stoat. In the brief note Desiderata did write to Magrat, she specifically told her not to take Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg with her when she went to Genua, on the other side of the Disc. Of course, this sort of reverse psychology completely fails to work on the two elder witches, and they accompany her... less