The photos themselves are included and, like the astonishing true story, they are simultaneously silly and haunting. Losure's elegant and charmingly formal prose makes palpable the girls' loss of control as their fame spirals ever wider. Losure provides a straightforward narrative that gives young readers a sense of the girls' different personalities the girls' daily life in WWI Yorkshire and the type of small events that may well have provoked them to stage the photographs. In the early years of the twentieth century it was fairies that intrigued, especially those in a handful of photographs made by two girls in England.Losure has written an engaging account of the affair, focusing sympathetically on the two young photographers, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright.
The yearning for the supernatural and the magical to be real seems timeless.
From the bottle-green cover showing Elsie dreamily regarding a fairy to the book's creamy pages and art-nouveau lettering, "The Fairy Ring" is as delightful to hold as it is captivating to read.
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