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At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen...
At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen...


But the Wintersmith isn't "exactly" a boy. He is Winter itself-snow, gales, icicles-all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.
But the Wintersmith isn't "exactly" a boy. He is Winter itself - snow, gales, icicles - all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.


Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax.
Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax.


"Crivens!" Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland-whether she wants it or not.
"Crivens!" Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland - whether she wants it or not.


It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring -
It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring -
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[[Category:Discworld Series|Wintersmith]]
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Wintersmith
Cover art by Paul Kidby
Co-author(s)
Illustrator(s)
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 28 Sep 2006
ISBN 0385609841
Pages 352
RRP
Main characters Tiffany Aching, the Nac Mac Feegle, Granny Weatherwax
Series Tiffany Series
Annotations View
Notes The third Tiffany Aching book and the first Discworld novel to appear in a year.
All data relates to the first UK edition.

Blurb

At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.

At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.

At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen...

But the Wintersmith isn't "exactly" a boy. He is Winter itself - snow, gales, icicles - all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.

Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax.

"Crivens!" Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland - whether she wants it or not.

It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring -

Spring won't come.

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Other Characters and Cameos

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First Edition Cover by Paul Kidby
Book Proof-US
Slipcase Collectors Edition
Paperback
Audio CD
Cover by Bill Mayer
Paperback 'Tiffany' cover by Paul Kidby
US Cover
Gift Edition 2017
Cover by Laura Ellen Anderson
Collectors Library Edition
Paperback 2023


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