Book description
'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing.
Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better
than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...'
Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations.
This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera.
Where the music matters and where an opera house is being terrorised
by a man in evening dress with a white mask, lurking in the shadows,
occasionally killing people, and most worryingly, sending little
notes, writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks. Opera
can do that to a man. In such circumstances, life has obviously
reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to
be the right thing to do...
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global
bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of
Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty
bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and
screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the
Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to
literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and
they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
www. terrypratchett. co. uk
