Proust are arrested by Carrot and Angua, and (nominally) locked up – although it is mostly, in fact, for their protection as people start to resent witches. When they find Roland and Letitia the Nac Mac Feegles, who have as usual been following Tiffany, are accused of destroying a pub. In the city she meets Mrs Proust, the proprietor of Boffo's joke shop, where many witches buy their stereotypical witch accoutrements. On the way Tiffany is attacked by the Cunning Man, a frightening figure who has holes where his eyes should be. Tiffany travels to Ankh-Morpork to inform the Baron's heir, Roland, who happens to be in the city with his fiancée Letitia. When the local Baron (for whom she had been caring) dies of poor health, she is accused of murder. Tiffany is working as the Chalk's only witch in a climate of growing suspicion and prejudice. In an interview at the Guardian Book Club, Pratchett remarked that the book is an urban fantasy. But for now she'd had enough of darkness." The title is taken from a quotation in A Hat Full of Sky: "When I'm old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. It centres on Tiffany Aching, who is now fifteen years old and getting on with the hard work of being a witch. It was published on 2 September 2010 in the United Kingdom, and on 28 September in the United States, and won the 2010 Andre Norton Award. It is the fourth novel within the Discworld series to be based on the character of Tiffany Aching. I Shall Wear Midnight is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld.
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