“The Cottingley Secret tells the tale of two girls who somehow convince the world that magic exists. 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.The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor Book PDF Summary
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 Frances longs for the truth to be told. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for many decades. 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. Now, in her newest novel, international bestseller Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story.ġ917… 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. The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that they had done the impossible and photographed fairies in their garden. One of BookBub's Most-Anticipated Books of Summer 2017!
An artful weaving of old legends with new realities, this tale invites the reader to wonder: could it be true?” - Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker
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