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Publication date 1983 Media type Print Pages 208 Awards Whitbread Book Award (1983) The Witches is a novel by the British writer. The story is set partly in Norway and partly in the United Kingdom, and features the experiences of a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The witches are all ruled by the extremely vicious and powerful, who in the story has just arrived in England to organise her worst plot ever. But an elderly former witch hunter and her young grandson find out about the evil plan and now they must do everything to stop it and defeat the witches.
The Witches was originally published in 1983 by in London, with illustrations by (like many of Dahl's works). The book was adapted into an unabridged audio reading by ( ), a stage play and a two-part radio dramatisation for the, a directed by which starred and, and. Contents • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] A seven-year-old British boy goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a car accident. The boy loves all his grandmother's stories, but he is especially enthralled by the one about witches, which she says are horrific creatures who seek to kill human children.
She tells him how to recognize them, and that she's a retired witch hunter. As specified in the parents' will, the boy and his grandmother return to England, where he was born and was in school, and where the house he is inheriting is located.
The grandmother warns the boy to be on his guard, however, since English witches are known to be among the most vicious in the world, notorious for turning children into loathsome creatures so that unsuspecting adults kill them. The grandmother reveals that witches in different countries have different customs; and that while the witches in each country have close affiliations with one another, they are not allowed to communicate with witches from other countries. She also tells him about the mysterious, the feared and diabolical leader of all of the world's witches, who each year visits their councils in every country. Shortly after arriving back in England, while the boy is working on the roof of his tree-house, he sees a strange woman in black staring up at him with an eerie smile, and he quickly registers that she is a witch. When the witch offers him a snake to tempt him, he climbs further up the tree and stays there, not daring to come down until his grandmother comes looking for him. This persuades the boy and his grandmother to be especially wary; and he carefully scrutinizes all women to determine whether they might be witches.