

But Frances longs for the truth to be told. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for many decades. 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. 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. Now, in her newest novel, international bestseller Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story.

An artful weaving of old legends with new realities, this tale invites the reader to wonder: could it be true?" - Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker One of BookBub's Most-Anticipated Books of Summer 2017 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. "The Cottingley Secret tells the tale of two girls who somehow convince the world that magic exists.
