Not your average Faerie Story

PRLog (Press Release) - Aug 23, 2006 -
ISBN: 1904762247
BINDING: P/BACK
PRICE: £5.99
SIZE: 110X180MM
PAGES: 160
CLASSIFICATION:  Fantasy/magic/realism. Age 8 – 12
PUBLICATION DATE: August 28TH 2006
The Author
Stephen Moore is a well-established children's author with six titles previously published by Hodder Children's Books between1996-2002. (Sales for which ranged between 15,000 and 30,000 copies.) Stephen has now signed a two-book deal with Lipstick and Fay is his latest new work. Please note, we will be re-printing his backlist of 5 titles over the next 24 months: ‘Fiddlesticks and Firestones’ ‘Tooth and Claw’ ‘Skin and Bone’ ‘Dead Edward’ ‘Spilling the Magic’ and ‘The Brugan.’ Three of this backlist were translated into 4 languages.
Synopsis: During a confrontation between developers and villagers an ancient oak tree is bulldozed, injuring and unknowingly releasing a 'faerie' spirit into the real world. This is where the trouble really begins. There are a series of terrible accidents. The summer weather turns impossibly foul.. People are badly hurt and the situation steadily worsens. The adults do not believe in faeries, so they are all for blaming their run of bad luck on the developers, or the local council, or the strange young woman who appears to have moved into an empty house in the village. It's a pair of young kids who think they see an injured faerie... rather than just an ordinary girl. They gradually make the connection between her and the events in the village, and come to realize that to put things right they must help her. But how do you save a faerie in distress...?
Along the way the story wrestles with the nature of what is real and what is imaginary. And Thomas (the narrator) changes from being a child who only stands by and watches events as they unfold into a boy of action...
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