The cottingley secret
(2018, original release: 2017)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/GAYNOR,H

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/FICTION/GAYNOR,H Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018
©2017
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

579 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781432847586, 1432847589 :, 1432847589, 9781432847586
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Includes reading group questions

1917... It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true--didn't it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a national sensation, their discovery offering hope to those longing for something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for many decades. But Frances longs for the truth to be told. One hundred years later... When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript in her late grandfather's bookshop she becomes fascinated by the story it tells of two young girls who mystified the world. But it is the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realize how the fairy girls' lives intertwine with hers, connecting past to present, and blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, can Olivia find a way to believe in herself?