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.

One hundred years 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. Thank you to the reading Agency and Harper Collins for providing Macclesfield Library Reading Group with ten copies of The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor. Reading this novel is akin to finding hidden treasure - each character, a friend each chapter, a revelation. 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. Richly imagined and terrifically enchanting, Hazel Gaynor’s The Cottingley Secret is an enthralling tale where memories serve as lifelines for the living, and the unseen is made real. 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…ġ917: 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. Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author) 3. They fooled their parents, the press AND they fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In her newest novel, Hazel Gaynor re-imagines their story.

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