Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Published: 1926 | Series: Standalone
When his son Ranulph is believed to have eaten fairy fruit, Nathaniel Chanticleer, the mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, finds himself looking into old mysteries in order to save his son and the people of his city.
About Hope Mirrlees
Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime: Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926). She also wrote A Fly in Amber, a biography of the British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.
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