![]() ![]() Though the photographs were meant to be a joke and the joke did go too far, the belief at that time helped many people get through a brutal time in history, World War I. I, too, believe that sometimes there are things no one can explain nor would I wish them to do so. The New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did. ![]() 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.Īs 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. The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor was so engrossing I would fail to put it down to sleep. ![]() 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.īut 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. The New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist. ![]()
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