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The Cottingley Secret

By: Hazel Gaynor
Narrated by: Karen Cass, Billie Fulford-Brown
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Summary

The New York Times best-selling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist....

1917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when the great novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a sensation, their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war.

One year later.... When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript and a photograph in her late grandfather's bookshop, she becomes fascinated by the story of the two young girls who mystified the world. As Olivia is drawn into events a century ago, she becomes aware of the past and the present intertwining, blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, will Olivia find a way to believe in herself?

©2017 Hazel Gaynor (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

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"Enchanting, magical.... This book reminds us that we are never too old to believe in magic." (Carmel Harrington)
"I adored The Cottingley Secret...an enchanting and enthralling tale of childhood magic." (Pam Jenoff, New York Times best-selling author of The Orphan's Tale)

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Brilliant!

I absolutely love this book. I couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end.
This has to be my favourite read of 2017.

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Awful Irish accents.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story but the Irish accents were so bad they were almost offensive, it kinda ruined it for me.

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A beautiful gift

In its gentle way, this book renewed my faith; in childhood, in family & in the magic of imagination.
It is like a beautiful gift shared by the quiet past. I would recommend it to anyone who felt a sense of wonder as a child & longs to be reminded that such feelings still remain, waiting to be discovered.

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