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Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World [Paperback]

Signe Pike (Author)
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Publication Date: 16 May 2011

In search of something to believe in once more, Signe Pike left behind a career in Manhattan to undertake a magical journey - literally. In a sweeping tour of Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland and beyond, she takes readers to dark glens and abandoned forests, ancient sacred sites and local pubs, seeking people who might still believe in the elusive beings we call faeries. As Pike attempts to connect with the spirit world - and reconnect with her sense of wonder and purpose - she comes to view both herself and the world around her in a profoundly new light.

Captivating, full of heart and unabashedly whimsical, Faery Tale is more than a memoir - it's the story of rekindling that spark of belief that makes even the most sceptical among us feel like a child again.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Hay House UK (16 May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1848503725
  • ISBN-13: 978-1848503724
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
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Her discoveries are heartwarming and spellbinding. With a distinctive voice and elegant prose, Faery Tale captures the hopefulness of childhood and the magic of believing. (Harper's Bazaar )

Pike went looking for enchantment; well, she found it, and she left its light and gracious footprints across every page of this delightful book. (Jeanine Cummins, bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven )

Pike's enchanting journey into the land of the faeries is more than a memoir; it's an earnest search for what is real in a world that is filled with illusion, and what is true in a world that is filled with falsehood. It makes you smile, and it makes you think.... (Marianne Williamson )

About the Author

Signe Pike was an editor at Penguin before leaving New York to write Faery Tale. Signe works as a freelance editor and writes full time in Charleston, South Carolina, where she is at work on her next non-fiction memoir. She lives with her husband, a mischievous black cat called Willoughby, and of course, their resident faeries.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Faeries 3 Jan 2012
By Damaskcat HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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The author of this interesting book had always felt there were faeries if you only knew how to see them. The idea of going somewhere which was well known for faery and otherworldly sightings began to take over her life and she gave up her job and organised a trip to the UK and other countries to see if she would be lucky enough to become aware of them.

Whether or not you believe in faeries or in magic doesn't really matter because this book can be enjoyed as a travelogue and a voyage of exploration. The author writes well and is constantly aware that to many her quest might seem ridiculous. At times it seems ridiculous to her and there are always touches of humour which stop this book taking itself too seriously.

I enjoyed the background information about such places as the Isle of Man - about which I knew very little. Naturally the author visited Glastonbury - that quintessential home of anything supernatural or religious as well as Ireland and Scotland where Celtic myths and legends lurk just below the surface of modern civilisation and culture. I found the people she met along the way interesting as it seems the right person appeared just when she needed help and advice. Coincidence? Or otherworldly influence? Who knows?
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2.0 out of 5 stars Whimsy? Or a biography of bereavement? 14 Dec 2011
By C. O'Brien VINE™ VOICE
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I was intrigued by this book's premise - the idea that a successful New York book editor would leave her job and her sophisticated urban life behind in order to chase all over the globe in search of enlightenment at the hands of...fairies.

Signe Pike prefers Spenser's more archaic spelling ("faery"), but her attitudes are more New Age than Olde Worlde. Early on she suggests that the account of her odyssey is "an examination of the loss of myth in modern culture". That sounds like an interesting prospect - especially as this personal drama is played out against a backdrop of personal loss (her beloved father has recently died).

However, the content just didn't live up to my expectations. Signe has a real appetite for whimsy - whether the kind perpetuated by witchy American girls called Raven, gift shops in Glastonbury or Birkenstock-clad English incomers in the Scottish Highlands. Without any clear idea of local history or myth, she clatters around the landscape buying charms, recording fairy panpipe music and crashing her hire car when she tries to drive the wrong way on a roundabout. There's something oddly appealing in a hopeless kind of way about her eternal optimism, her odd ideas about the British, her Wikipedia research and her gullible klutziness, but the book offers little more than a series of holiday postcards - it certainly doesn't examine the hole in our psyche left by the disappearance of myth. I live in the northern Highlands and there is much in the landscape and history which could be described as genuinely enchanting or mythic - but poor Signe never gets further than an encounter with some hippies on Skye and a breathless trip to the new age community at Findhorn.

She never really finds her faeries, either - the closest she gets is a display of coloured lights over Glastonbury and a few weird technical glitches on her ipod. I was left with the feeling that this is a disguised biography of bereavement, and that the search for a fairy kingdom was really a reaction to the loss of her father and her desire to reclaim a childhood mindset.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A little tenuous.... 15 Aug 2011
By Soo Broo VINE™ VOICE
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Yeeees. A little tenuous I think. Let me explain.

Not sure why a someone would give up a (seemingly) good job at a young age - "quality me time" I expect the Americans would call it. HOWEVER. This was a good read and she has an easy, warm style that's very pleasing. I did admire her get up and go to get up and come to Europe - and Mexico - alone, to research and investigate something that is obviously dear to her. Having travelled alone as a young female, it can be daunting and sometimes a little scary, so full marks for that.

I agree with others that she has a pre-conceived idea about us Brits, but then I suppose we do about other nations - the comment about Brits driving fast, very fast made me laugh as I've always thought Americans must find that puzzling about us! I'm just not convinced by her so-called evidence; if you really believe in something, or want to believe, you'll interpret all sorts of things in your favour (I was out walking yesterday and saw three black feathers too, but I didn't think they were a sign...) A colleague of mine obsessed with Charlotte Bronte was convinced she "felt" her presence in the Haworth parsonage for example.

I think Signe was very influenced by those around her, the power of suggestion and perhaps the whole experience in finding yourself in some of those - truly - magical places in the England, Scotland and Ireland. I'm not really sure about little lights, supposed sightings of little hairy people, house gnomes (too much Harry Potter maybe) and voices in the head, but it was an interesting idea and a good read. She came over as likeable and friendly and it genuinely did make me want to visit some of the places, so perhaps we all want to believe a little bit. Good for her for following her beliefs and if it helped her to resolve some of her feelings for her father, then so much the better.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed the opportunity to dream
I don't normally like books of this type, frequently finding them self indulgent and blinkered. But I really did enjoy Signe's writing. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Pompom
4.0 out of 5 stars Faery Travels
An interesting mix of a book, part travelogue, part coming to terms with death, part fairy search. A you would expect from an editor of penguin books it is written in an easy... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tudor
3.0 out of 5 stars Helped me to re-connect with a little magic!
Even though I flicked through some of the pages as it was to be honest a little boring I stilled enjoyed the book. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Linda in London
3.0 out of 5 stars It is indeed one woman's search
I have a mind more open than many when it comes to thinking about alternative ways of understanding the world. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Angus Jenkinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting
Do you believe in Fairies? Signe Pike does. Faery Tale is a memoir and travel book recounting Signe's travels through Britain and Ireland looking for the magic which is everywhere... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lisa Redmond
4.0 out of 5 stars Light and Enjoyable...
Signe Pike, a young American woman in her twenties packs in her job and heads off to Britain in search of fairies. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lizzie
4.0 out of 5 stars I do, I do, I do believe in faeries.
Whether you are ready to believe or not is neither here nor there. Signe Pike's book is simply an exploration of a world dipped in magic that seems to have been pushed out of our... Read more
Published 13 months ago by P. Stokes
5.0 out of 5 stars Do you believe...?
It has taken me a while to come round to reading and reviewing this book for Vine. When I saw it on the programme, I pounced on it, thinking it would be right up my street. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Brida
3.0 out of 5 stars Travel as therapy
As a reason to give up your job and go travelling, a search for fairies is as good a reason as any. This is a good description of our historical sites and the narrator has an... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Constant Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars Better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Signe's search for fayries took her to a lot of ancient British sites and her description of these sites and their history made this book worth reading to the end. Read more
Published 15 months ago by John Williams
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