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In a land troubled by witches and feuding clans, step-sisters Kate
and Katherine form an unlikely friendship over a shared love of
fairies. This does not go down well with everyone . . . Grizel
Maxwell may be Kate's mother, but she is also a witch, and
jealously plots to get rid of Katherine with a curse, forcing Kate
and Katherine to leave their homeland to escape the evil witch and
seek a cure for her terrible spell. First published in 1963,
Katherine Briggs' wonderful re-casting of the classic fable of
friendship conquering all is a rare and beguiling mix of folk-lore
and fantasy. The author's own fascination with the English
folk-lore tradition imbues the telling with seriousness and beauty
that transcend its generic roots.
First published in 1955, Katherine Briggs' story about the
hobgoblin whose charge it is to protect and influence the unloving
Puritan family who come to live at Widford Manor after the Civil
War is a classic of English children's writing. Hobberdy Dick's
benign works in favour of the characters carry the story from
sadness to delight; but it is his character as ancient guardian
that holds the reader. For the true conclusion is that sanctioned
by fairy lore: the offer of mortal cloth for Dick to wear which
will bring him eternal release from servitude. All these strands
are intertwined with wonderful ease. Katharine Briggs's absorption
in 'the personnel of fairyland' confers a naturalness to the
supernatural goings-on, while the precise attention she gives to
its setting reinforces this. Much of her youth had been spent in
Scotland, but in 1939 she had bought a house in Burford and her
love of the Cotswolds, with their green roads, their barrows, and
their standing stones bring accuracy and, above all, warmth to her
portrayal of both landscape and people.
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