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RELEASED 23 JUNE
409 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook
Author Kit Whitfield
Publisher Jo Fletcher Books
Kit Whitfield’s vaguely 18th-century magical realist world is one where “fairy-smiths” are called upon to deal with problems with the fey, whether that’s fairly minor ones like badly behaved bushes, talking cats or investigating deaths at the jaws of Black Hal, the spectral hound that runs down Chalk Lane seven times a year. But their real problems are grasping landlords squeezing other villagers, threatening eviction and worse.
As the Smiths – Jedediah, Matthew and adolescent, slightly fey-touched John – try to help those around them and stand up to Ephraim Brady and Roger Groves, the book makes a beautiful exploration of masculinity, of what it means to be physically strong and potentially have control over others, and how a person accepts responsibility.
This story is from the July 2022 edition of SFX UK.
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