Now for the first time at Doodled Books we have an
exclusive scoop of the incredibly rare Limited Special Edition of Some Kind of
Fairy Tale. And to add extra rarity the Graham Joyce has signed, lined, dated
and numbered exclusive doodles for your collection!
As you probably already know Graham Joyce is a four time
winner of the British Fantasy Award. He has also won the World Fantasy Award.
And his new book Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a very English story. A story of woods and clearings, a story of folk
tales and family histories. It is as if Neil Gaiman and Joanne Harris had
written a Fairy Tale together.
The story starts on a Christmas afternoon and Peter Martin gets an
unexpected phonecall from his parents, asking him to come round. It pulls him
away from his wife and children and into a bewildering mystery.
He arrives at his parents house
and discovers that they have a visitor. His sister Tara. Not so unusual you
might think, this is Christmas after all, a time when families get together. But
twenty years ago Tara took a walk into the woods and never came back and as the
years have gone by with no word from her the family have, unspoken, assumed that
she was dead. Now she's back, tired, dirty, dishevelled, but happy and full of
stories about twenty years spent travelling the world, an epic odyssey taken on
a whim. But her stories don't
quite hang together and once she has cleaned herself up and got some sleep it
becomes apparent that the intervening years have been very kind to Tara. She
really does look no different from the young women who walked out the door
twenty years ago. Peter's parents are just delighted to have their little girl
back, but Peter and his best friend Richie, Tara's one time boyfriend, are not
so sure. Tara seems happy enough but there is something about her. A haunted,
otherworldly quality. Some would say it's as if she's off with the fairies. And
as the months go by Peter begins to suspect that the woods around their homes
are not finished with Tara and his
family...
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