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Hope Mirrlees, Neil Gaiman

Cold Spring Press, 2005

Fairy fruit for the soul
This is a wonderful book; beautiful and melancholy and strange and at times profoundly disturbing. Its touch lingers like a whispered word that you can't quite make out, and the effect on the psyche is eerily similar to that of fairy fruit itself. I only wish I'd had the opportunity to read it as a child, but even so, I would have seen it in an entirely different light as an adult. It's that ...