A.S. Byatt
Alison Littlewood
Andrew Michael Hurley
Anita Frank
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Machen
Bone China
Bridget Collins
Camilla Bruce
Caroline Lea
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Cottingley Fairies
Dark Academia
Dark fairy tale
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Fae
Fairy story
Fairy tale
Folklore
Gothic
John Buchan
Katherine Clements
Laura Purcell
Marian Womack
Mexican Gothic
Michelle Paver
No Man's Land
Possession
Rose Black
Sarah Waters
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Stacey Halls
Starve Acre
The Binding
The Coffin Path
The Corset
The Familiars
The Foundling
The Glass Woman
The Golden Key
The Little Stranger
The Loney
The Lost Ones
The Novel of the Black Seal
The Silent Companions
The Three Imposters
The Unforgetting
Wakenhyrst
Yorkshire
You Let Me In
Product details
- ISBN 9781789096859
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Captivated by books and stories, Rose dreams of a more fulfilled life, away from the confines of the Sunnyside Care Home where she works to support herself and her boyfriend. She hopes the situation will be short term.
Charlotte Favell, an elderly resident, takes a strange, sinister interest in Rose, but offers an unexpected glimpse of enchantment. She has a mysterious and aged stack of letters about the Cottingley Fairies, the photographs made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle, but later dismissed as a hoax. The author of the letters insists he has proof that the fairies exist; Rose is eager to learn more, but Charlotte only allows her to read on when she sees fit.
Discovering she is unexpectedly pregnant, Rose feels another door to the future has slammed. The letters’ content grows more menacing, inexplicable events begin to occur inside her home, and Rose begins to entertain dark thoughts about her baby and its origins. Can this simply be depression? Or is something darker taking root?
A. J. Elwood studied literature and history, which everyone assured her would never have any direct relevance to what she ended up doing with her life. She remains fascinated by those times when people could believe in things we think of as madness and have perfectly good reasons for doing so. An early obsession with fairy tales has stayed with her and she loves to pen stories that hopefully contain a little bit of magic and often more than a little of the strange.
