Eleven-year-old Tiffany Aching wants to be a real witch.

But a real witch doesn't casually step out of her body, leaving it empty.

Tiffany does - and there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over.

Something ancient and horrible, which can't die. Now Tiffany's got to learn to be a real witch really quickly, with the help of arch-witch Mistress Weatherwax and the truly amazing Miss Level.

Oh, yes. And the Nac Mac Feegle - the rowdlest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairles ever to be thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk at two in the afternoon.

They'll fight anything-