One of BookBub's Most-Anticipated Books of Summer 2017!
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. Now, in her newest novel, international bestseller Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story.
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? @goodreads
This book is so very magical 💕 It was my feel good book and let me give justice to the amazing cover! I want to go there!!
This story is about Frances and Elsie from the past and Olivia from present day.
Olivia has come home to Ireland to get her grandparents (nana & pappy) things in order. Olivia's sweet grandfather has died and he left her his bookshop, Something Old. He sold old books as you can figure from the title. Olivia is trying to decide if she wants to go back to London and get married or stay in Ireland and run the bookshop.
Olivia's grandmother is in a home because she has the horrible disease of Alzheimer's. =( Olivia has to go through all the things in her grandparents cottage and look into selling it, which she doesn't want to do.
Meanwhile, Olivia is finding out some things about a little girl from the past that she was related to. Frances was the girl who saw fairies and had the picture to prove it.
Little did Frances know, her and Elsie would be known worldwide because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took an interest in the picture and believed them. The girls didn't want to be famous, they just wanted to show their family. Be careful of what you do!
Like I said before, this is a magical book. There are so many wonderful things in the book that you need to find out for yourself. The book is about finding out who you really are and setting out for your own dreams.
This book is about Hope, Love & Fairies ♥
Don't stop believing =)
Mel ♥
GOODREADS REVIEW:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2110267649
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