It doesn’t take long before the photographs reach fever pitch, everyone wants a piece of the girls and their fairies. While spending time in the garden of Elsie’s Cottingley based abode, the two girls manage to capture something magical on camera, fairies at the bottom of their garden near the local beck. Opening in the year 1917 in the north of England, we meet young Frances Griffiths and her cousin Elsie. There is no denying the allure of Hazel Gaynor’s 2017 release! A book shrouded in myth, speculation, innocence, curiosity and hope, The Cottingley Secret crosses the time of the Great War, through to the present day. Magic, mystery, family secrets and fairies fill the pages of the fourth novel by historical fiction specialist Hazel Gaynor. and blurring what is real and what is imagined. But it’s the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realize how the story of Frances and Elsie intertwines with hers, connecting past to present. She becomes fascinated by the tale it tells. Olivia Kavanagh inherits her grandfather’s bookshop, and is amazed to find a manuscript that has been hidden away for decades.

Together, the cousins keep their secret about the photos for decades, until they decide it’s time to tell the truth. And a nation torn apart by tragedy embraces this amazing event. The photos are declared real by none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They’ve photographed actual fairies, those ethereal creatures of mischief, living in their Cottingley, England, garden. In a world torn apart by war, two young Yorkshire cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, announce that something marvelous has happened. Without the camera, I wouldn’t have a story to tell.ġ917 .

After all, without the camera, there wouldn’t have been any photographs. I said my story had many beginnings, and the day the camera arrived was one of them.

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