The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a comedic fantasy written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and published in 1990. This collaboration between the two finest fantasy authors of this generation is nothing short of brilliant, and while they both shared everything equally and did it for fun, the book is unlikely to get a sequel, due to Terry Prachett’s untimely passing on in 2015, at least not by the original authors.
The antichrist has been born, the four horsemen of apocalypse have gathered, it is the end of the world as we all know it and it is all occurring in the small English suburb of Lower Tadfield. This is not the news Aziraphale, an angel who doubles as a rare-book dealer, and Crowley, a slightly

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