Soul Music (by Terry Pratchett)

In my gradual re-reading of Terry Pratchetts lengthy Discworld series, I had reached the sixteenth in the series, Soul Music. I recalled it as being one of my favourites, although its a long time since I read it. I acquired it in 1996, and am pretty sure I read it aloud to my teenage sons around six or seven years later, but I have not read it since then.

By this stage in the series, Pratchett had developed the technique of running several different threads alongside each other,...