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The New York Times best-selling author of The Female Who Came Home transforms the clock back again 100 years to a time when two girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, persuaded the entire world that that they had done the impossible and photographed fairies in their garden. Now, in her most recent book, international best retailer Hazel Gaynor reimagines their storyline. 1917... It was inexplicable, impossible, but it needed to be true - didn't it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, Britain, lay claim to have photographed fairies in the bottom of your garden, their parents are astonished. However when one of the fantastic novelists of that time period, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes persuaded of the images' authenticity, the girls become a nationwide sensation, their discovery offering hope to those desiring something to believe in amid a global ravaged by war. Frances and Elsie will conceal their secret for many generations. But Frances longs for the reality to be told. One hundred years later...When Olivia Kavanagh confirms an old manuscript in her overdue grandfather's bookshop, she becomes fascinated by the storyline it tells of two girls who mystified the entire world. Nonetheless it is the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realize how the fairy ladies' lives intertwine with hers, connecting past to provide and blurring her understanding of what is real and what is dreamed. As she starts to comprehend why a nation once thought in fairies, can Olivia find a way to believe in herself?
