![]() While that approach limits reflection and analysis, the book deftly conveys the widening of the ripples from the event and the complexity of the impulses behind the creation of the photographs (while eventually confessing to the girls' fakery of the photographs, Frances remained convinced that she had seen fairies and that one picture was real). Losure explores this historical event in a narrative that reads like a novel, keeping the focus tightly on the experience of young cousins Elsie and, especially, Frances as they move from an in-family bit of mischief to justify outdoor play to a claim that they must increasingly invest in as the stakes become higher and higher. ![]() Towards the end of World War I, two girls in Yorkshire took photographs that purported to capture the fairies they regularly saw, and these pictures eventually became a national sensation when none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publicized them and championed them as authentic. ![]()
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