Name: The Cottingley Secret
ISBN: 9780008208158

Hazel Gaynor

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...

The Cottingley Secret

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred 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. Now, in her newest novel, international bestseller Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story. 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?

A Novel

Lisa Merriam

I picked this book off the shelf thinking, "this has been on my to be read shelf for awhile, I'll read it, donate it and get more space" oh was I so wrong. 
This book made me cry, made me smile, had an ambiance of cozy I havnt felt from a book in years. 
The story jumps from present day Olivia struggling with big decisions and big changes in her life and back to 1920's era during the war and cottingley fairies and there discovery and the sense of hope and wonder. I hate books that jump back and forth between different perspectives to be honest, I enjoy getting lost in a book and find when it switches perspective I get pulled out of the magic. This book did the switching beautifully, it was perfect timing and acknowledged of what had happened. 
This book is beautiful and I hope to share it with family in hopes they will receive the same sense of hope I recieved from reading it.

Judy Hudgins

Olivia is going through a life-choice crisis. Does she resume her old life and continue with her wedding or does she stay in Ireland at her grandfather's old bookstore? Added to that is a set of pages her grandfather left behind for her which details the story of the Cottingley fairies in the early 1900's. What to do?

The Cottingley Secret

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