{"product_id":"wyrd-sisters-9780552173308","title":"Wyrd Sisters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e___________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It''s the other way around.'' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree witches - \u003cb\u003eGranny Weatherwax\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eNanny Ogg \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eMagrat Garlick \u003c\/b\u003e- have gathered on a lonely heath. A king has been cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. An infant heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitches don''t have these kind of dynastic problems themselves  in fact, they don't have leaders. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGranny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don''t have. But even \u003ci\u003eshe\u003c\/i\u003e f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift, he is a satirist of enormous talent' * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e'One of the perennial joys of modern fiction' * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e'One of the pleasures of the book is the way in which literary classics float effortlessly through them in a way that would be pounced on as inter-textual in another author but is never allowed to become strident or alienating in Pratchett's work' * Guardian *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735154864471,"sku":"9780552173308","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552173308.jpg?v=1723810045","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wyrd-sisters-9780552173308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}