Equal Rites Av Terry Pratchett

<p><b>¿Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd¿ </b><i>The Sunday Times </i><br><br><b>The 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 . . .</b><br><br><i>They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but </i><i>it¿s</i><i> not half so bad as a lot of ignorance.</i><br><br> The last thing the wizard <b>Drum Billet</b> did, before <b>D</b><b>eath </b>laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. <br><br>Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check that the baby in question <i>was</i> a son. <br><br>Everybody knows that there''s no such thing as a female wizard. But now it''s gone and happened, there''s nothing much anyone can do about it.<br><br><b>Let the battle of the sexes begin . . . <br></b>____________________<br><b