When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes--she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. But alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic Agnes.<P>Now she's living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to ...
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Spanning 60 years, William Trevor's story of love and revenge, set against the background of the Irish Troubles, has at its center a dark and violent act that spills over into the mutilated lives of generations to come.