Yatterings

In one of those rare catch-up moments, I finished Terry Pratchett’s Wintersmith on Sunday which made me both laugh and reflect. His observation of foibles is, as ever, excellent but there is a reflective tone of melancholy to the series - perhaps a reflection of personal experience?

It strikes me that Tiffany has grown up really rather quickly in the books, going from her initiate and meeting the Wee Free Men to the challenging book about teenagerdom to first “relationships” and boys “fumbling abouts getting it wrong” type of thing.

He takes the fantastic elements and further pulls the idea of witches to pieces and continues to show their very human side. Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, whilst lots of fun, are ever so flat now but Annagramma does bring something back to the general idea that “witches” are ordinary folk. (It sort of reminds me Good Omens .)

Whilst the book are set in Discworld, there’s a freshness to them without recycling too many characters and it seems apparent that Pratchett can do something that he cannot in the adult books. Now about those morris dancers…