Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book

About this book

"July 6th 1895. Nanna wuldnt bleive me. Ettie wuldnt bleive me. Auntie Mercy wuldnt bleive me. But I got one. Now theyv got to blieve me." What young Angelica Cottington "got" was...a fairy. And you are holding the evidence in your hands! It really happened--a hoax perpetrated by two girls who claimed to have photographed actual "fairies"; among the people caught up in the popular hysteria were Arthur Conan Doyle (who fell for it) and Harry Houdini (who did not). Now this remarkable parody written by a former member of the Monty Python troupe takes a sly look at what happened in a fashion thats riotously witty visually extraordinary and wildly original. In every respect this "handwritten diary" captures the look of the age--though the fairies it is true do sometimes have a more malevolent aspect than one might expect...A fresh--and funny--take on the true story that inspired two movies.