Book description
Sherwood Forest, home of Oberon, Titania, Puck, Cobweb, Peaseblossom
and the rest of the mob, has been whittled away by urban development.
It's time to move on, the fairies decide. Sid, their captive, a kindly
if gruff young car mechanic, teaches Titania to drive, and on
Midsummer's Eve the party sets off in a battered and smelly old bus.
They're bound for the New Forest, where they hope to be able to
regenerate their magic. The fairies' journey is full of excitement. At a
village fair, they show the morris dancers how to cut previously
undreamt-of capers. Titania falls in love with a human baby and steals
her from her pram, starting a nationwide search for the missing infant.
The fairies then link up with a group of New Age travellers on their way
to Stonehenge, who befriend them almost without question. Finally, a
fight to the death between Titania and the terrifying and sadistic
Morgan-le-Fey must take place before everyone can settle down into some
form of harmony and peace. Garry Kilworth (1941 -) Garry Douglas
Kilworth was born in York in 1941 and travelled widely as a child, his
father being a serviceman. After seventeen years in the RAF and eight
working for Cable and Wireless, he attended King's College, London
University, where he obtained an honours degree in English. Garry
Kilworth has published novels under a number of pseudonyms in the fields
of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction and Children's Fiction,
winning the British and World Fantasy Awards and being twice shortlisted
for the prestigious Carnegie Award for Children's Literature.
