Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Suspense Thriller, (Paperback)

from Goldengrove

Joyce writes well, and this is a clever take on the fairy abduction trope. A young girl disappears in the early 1990s and returns to her family strangely unchanged in the present day. She believes she has been away for 6 months, tricked into remaining in the realm of faerie by a plausible man who...

from kraaivrouw

This is the first book I've read by Graham Joyce, but it won't be last. A classic tale of a child stolen by faerie and then returned, this novel will keep you reading and reading until the bitter end. All the elements are there - a mystery, a missing person returned, time and history elided and r...

from mckait

This story has been told before a thousand times, and will no doubt be told a thousand more. Do not consider this to be a bad thing, for only a tale worth hearing is worth telling again and again. You will recognize the story, yet is is all new. Tara is a young girl who finds herself in a bind. S...

from HarperGray

On Christmas Day, Tara Martin appears on her parents' front doorstep. This would not have been at all strange, had she not been missing for twenty years. And also had she not looked a day over 15, the age she was when she disappeared. Those of you who grew up with a certain kind of story can prob...

from RobertDay

It's become an everyday expression - someone is described as being "away with the fairies" if they seem to be woolgathering, or having odd ideas, or acting strangely. But what if someone came back after twenty years away, claiming actually to have been "away with the fairies"? How would that play...