I left the theater elated, my spirit had been turned about and was soaring. It was a lovely creation, and a bit of its magic rubbed off on me. My wife decided I needed to get out of my downward spiral, so she took me to see Fairytale, a film based on the Cottingley story. I had been out of work for almost nine months and sinking into depression more and more each day. The story of the Cottingley faeries all but saved my life once upon a time. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, can Olivia find a way to believe in herself? 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.
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. 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. Now, in her newest novel, international best seller Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story.ġ917. The New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back 100 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.
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