A Hat Full of Sky : A Tiffany Aching Novel

Tiffany Aching is going 'into service': to be a lady, no less, a maid in a big house.At least, this is what she tells her parents. Really, Tiffany is going away to learn magic. But making friends with fellow witches is always difficult when an invisible-being-that-cannot-be-killed takes over your body - stealing money, and threatening violence. Tiffany must use all her witchy cunning to reclaim what's hers.Luckily, she has a bit of help. What's tiny, Scottish and blue all over? A Nac Mac Feegle of course - the rudest type of fairy, and handy to have in a tight spot . . . 'Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters'Independent on Sunday