The Moonlight Market
Book description
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Moonlight Market as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I've always liked Joanne Harris's short fairy tales that she has posted online over the years. This book spins an original fairy tale about the ill-fated love between the Moth King and the Butterfly Queen, and intersperses it with a time-shifting urban fantasy set in London - which turns out to be the same story. As someone who lives close to the home of the Cottingley Fairies, I love the link between glass plate photography, lepidoptery and fairies. I also like the idea that, when walking in a place like London, with centuries of history overlaid, you can slip through…