The Modern Fairies

Winner of the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize • A BookPage Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year • “Artfully composed…keenly alive…this memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives.” — The New York Times Lauren Groff’s Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this wry and “bawdy” ( Los Angeles Times ) historical novel—inspired by true events—featuring an elite group of Paris intellectuals who perform fairy tales that put both the storyt