The true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than
60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of "real" fairies.
Exquisitely illustrated with art by Eliza Wheeler as well as the
original photos taken by the girls.
In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of
her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies,
fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of
circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be
widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that
the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were
a hoax. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time
when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible
to trick an eager public into believing something magical. Exquisitely
illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.