02173cam a2200325 i 4500 298922485 TxAuBib 20170717120000.0 170627s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017027404 9780062690487 25.99 0062690485 25.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Gaynor, Hazel. The Cottingley secret [BOOK] : a novel / Hazel Gaynor. New York, N.Y. : William Morrow, 2017. 383 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 1917... 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. 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 grandfather's 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? 20170801. Wright, Elsie 1901-1988 Fiction. Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930 Fiction. Griffiths, Frances 1907-1986 Fiction. Fairies Fiction. Deception Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.