“Oh obvious,” said Granny. “I’ll grant you it’s obvious. Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn’t mean they’re true.”
Book 6 in the Discworld series, Book 2 in the Witches subseries.
Discworld meets MacBeth in the second instalment of the Witches series, and the result is a story about an unsual coven of three very different witches, the young and idealistic Magrat Garlick, the gregarious and stubborn Nanny Ogg and the formidable and cantankerous Granny Weatherwax.
It is also the story of a mad duke who kills the king and seizes the throne, spurred on by his cruel and ambitious wife. And it is the story of the Duke’s Fool who has sworn allegiance to the throne regardless of who is sitting on it, of a true heir to the realm who is whisked away to strange and foreign parts, and of the ghost of the murdered king who ends up haunting the castle and discovering just how many restless souls a castle of old can contain.
And it is a story of the magic of the stage, the potency of words and the power of suggestion, and how all of these can be used for both good or evil, depending on who is wielding them. And it is a story of how easily rumours are started, and how difficult it is to dispel them once they turn into so-called facts that everyone knows.
For Shakespeare fans, theatre enthusiasts and anyone who believes that words have the power to shape people’s perceptions of reality, Wyrd Sisters is entertaining, quirky and, beneath the witchy and wacky escapades, an extremely sharp and clever look at power and persuasion, and the follies and fancies of the human mind.
Fantasy – Humour – Satire
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