A Hat Full of Sky

core novel 2004 Discworld

Record

First published	2004
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.33 (81,803 ratings, collected 2026-09-11)
Page count	407
First-edition ISBN	9780385607360

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Tiffany Aching leaves her family's farm on the Chalk to begin her formal training as a witch, apprenticed to the eccentric Miss Level, a woman who unusually inhabits two bodies at once, in a remote mountain cottage. Escorted partway by her former mentor Miss Tick, Tiffany is shadowed on the road by something unseen and unsettling, and soon after her arrival she becomes the target of a hiver, an ancient, invisible parasite that seeks out powerful minds to possess. Struggling to adjust to Miss Level's household, a circle of unwelcoming fellow apprentices led by the condescending Annagramma, and the watchful presence of the legendary witch Granny Weatherwax, Tiffany finds herself increasingly vulnerable just as the hiver closes in, forcing her to reckon with what kind of witch, and what kind of person, she actually wants to be.

Where it sits

• Universe: Discworld
• Series: Tiffany Aching core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Terry Pratchett

Awards (verified)

• Locus Award (Best Young Adult Book), 2005: won

Notes

• From the series record (Tiffany Aching): YA sequence; counts fully as Discworld novels.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within the series Tiffany Aching: position 2 of 5: previous The Wee Free Men (2003) · next Wintersmith (2006)

Sources

• https://wiki.lspace.org/Bibliography
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hat_Full_of_Sky
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
• sfadb -- Locus Awards Winners By Category

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