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. The Cottingley Secret: A Novel Show full title By Hazel Gaynor 4 / 5 ( 129 ratings ) About this ebook The Cottingley Secret tells the tale of two girls who somehow convince the world that magic exists. 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. Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail and Irish Times bestselling historical novelist.

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. HAZEL GAYNOR is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Memory of Violets and The Girl Who Came Home, for which she received the 2015 RNA. 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 brings the mystery of the Cottingley Fairies thrillingly to lifeA mystery, a love story, and an enchanting and surprising journey of self-discovery, The Cottingley Secret unwraps the true story behind one of the great hoaxes of the 19th century while still allowing the possibility of the magical.

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