num_pages: 383
description: The 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 truedidnt 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 grandfathers 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?
language: English
title: The Cottingley Secret
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks