Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)

By Terry Pratchett

&#39;They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.&#39;Everybody knows there&#39;s no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her.Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld&#39;s most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. With Granny&#39;s help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon.But power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Let the battle of the sexes begin . . .&#39;If you&#39;ve never read a Discworld novel, what&#39;s the matter with you?&#39; Guardian&#39;Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own&#39; The TimesEqual Rites is the first book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'Everybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her.Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld's

By Terry Pratchett

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