First US edition, 278 pages
English language
Published June 2004 by HarperCollins.
Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic – not chores and ill-tempered goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this.
What Tiffany doesn’t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany’s inner strength to save herself… if it can be done at all.
The second book in the Tiffany Aching sequence.
This one is really nice. It's exciting, and it has a lot of Granny Weatherwax, next to other super cool characters, and there's even some musing on what it means to be a witch that is not only super cool, but also has Esme get sentimental! Love it.
There is plural stuff again, both the more explicit kind and more indications that being a witch means not being too singlet in general, and being comfortable with that.
