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|title=The Windvale Sprites

|sort=Windvale Sprites

|publisher=Faber and Faber

|date=November 2011

|summary=If you, like me, thought this was a vanity project, then be prepared to be staggered. A boy discovering fairies has hardly been covered in a better way.

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The 'hurricane' of 1987, that Michael Fish famously dismissed while it was en route, brought a lot of destruction, that we know. But what hasn't been known before now is that it also brought a dead body to Asa Brown's attention - the dead body of a fairy. Looking into things at the local library the lad finds more and more clues that a local eccentric, two hundred years previously, had been the only other person to know of the sprites' existence. But what the clue trail leads to, Asa would never possibly suspect...