The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March 2015.

He is dissatisfied with hunting practices he considers barbaric, and after a confrontation with his father, heads towards Lancre, intending to become a witch.

Meanwhile, in the domain of the Elves, Peaseblossom senses that the passing of Granny Weatherwax has weakened the barriers between the realms.

Tiffany, spread thin tending to the Chalk and Granny Weatherwax's old steading, employs Geoffrey as a "backhouse boy"[clarification needed] and starts teaching him.

While there, Tiffany decides to carry as a talisman the shepherd's crown (a fossilised echinoid) that had been in the Aching family for many generations.

The elves seem to have the upper hand until Tiffany, wearing the shepherd's crown, calls the power of the Chalk to bring a storm and commands the ghosts of her grandmother's sheepdogs, Thunder and Lightning.

[10] Neil Gaiman has said that Pratchett had originally planned to end the book with the revelation that Granny Weatherwax had temporarily placed her consciousness within You the cat, and that Death would only collect her in the epilogue, after she says "I am leaving on my own terms now;" however, Pratchett's health deteriorated too quickly for him to be able to write this scene.