The Windvale Sprites

Publisher: Faber and Faber

After a devastating storm, Asa Brown wakes to a landscape of uprooted trees and fallen powerlines. Floating on the pond is a small, dead creature with huge black eyes and thorny limbs, a cross between a dragonfly and a fairy. Researching these insect-men, Asa reads about 'the fair many' Benjamin Tooth, an 18th century alchemist and unearths his trunk. Inside, a leather-bound book shows that Tooth had captured and experimented on several sprites.

At Tooth’s tumbledown cottage on Windvale Moor, Asa learns that the sprites may hold the key to eternal life and Benjamin Tooth makes a surprising reappearance...

Acclaimed actor Mackenzie Crook has written this beguiling fantasy about an undiscovered magical species and a boy’s quest to help them.

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