![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They visited before Christmas to check if I was behaving myself, and before my birthday to wish me well. My bedtime stories were filled with mischief from the fairies’ adventures, and with a so-called fairy fort only a stone’s throw away from my home, the fairies were never far away.Īs a girl, they took my lost teeth and left me gifts of money, which I would quickly spend on a new Harry Potter or an old classic – Black Beauty or The Secret Garden being firm favourites. Besides this, growing up in rural Ireland my childhood has never been short of tales of magic, legends of the wee folk. I am a lifelong lover of books, devouring one after another when I should have been sleeping and going on to work in a bookshop and study English at university. When I first heard about The Book Fairies, following Emma Watson’s book drop of The Handmaid’s Tale in Paris, to say that I was intrigued was an understatement. In her pic, she is hiding behind a copy of I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson □ Book Fairy Adventures in Cork, by aoife We love love LOVE hearing stories of hiding books, from book fairies around the world! This time Aoife is sharing her tales of spreading the magic in Cork, Ireland. ![]()
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