6/2/2023 0 Comments The cottingley secret![]() How had the girls done it, and why had they perpetuated the myth for so long? It was these questions I wanted to answer in writing The Cottingley Secret: the how and the why of this enduring fairy tale.Īrthue Conan Doyle’s letter to one of the girls behind the fairy photographsįor any historical novelist, the challenge is to add colour, depth and human emotion to grainy black and white images and pages of rigid academic texts. ![]() The confession left me even more intrigued. ![]() In 1983, the six-decade long hoax ended with a confession that the photographs were, indeed, fake. What could be more enchanting than a photograph of real fairies? Except, they weren't real. Growing up in Yorkshire, I was aware of the famous fairy photographs, taken in the West Riding town of Cottingley in the early 1900s. ![]() This was my experience in writing The Cottingley Secret, a novel I was, perhaps, always meant to write, and which was inspired by one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century, when two girls claimed to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden. Inspiration can come from anywhere (or nowhere), and on rare occasions, it pulls up a chair and refuses to go away. ![]()
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