by Elazabeth Ann Scarborough
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by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
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Fairy godmother-in-training Sno Quantrill pursues her education in Ireland, where she discovers a doorway to the land of Faerie and joins an unlikely band of comrades during the funeral for the King of the Cats.
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How to Become a Fairy Godmother
I wanted to make use of all of the research I had done in Ireland while writing the Powers books with Anne McCaffrey. Since Felicity Fortune, the fairy godmother from The Godmother, is Irish, it made sense that she would return to Ireland after her adventures, perhaps a bit drained. To bolster her up she takes along a girl from the first book who has decided being a beautiful princess is not socially relevant enough for her. She wants to be a godmother too. I became interested in the Irish Travelling People while I was there and so one of the human characters turned out to be a Traveller, as did all of the cats, however temporarily, when they went to bury The King of the Cats, one of my favorite folktales. The stories in this book are less familiar to readers, perhaps, than Cinderella, Snow White, and some of the more common ones in The Godmother. But I hope readers new to them will be as fascinated as I was with the Irish historio-mythic cycle. My other favorite tale was The Children of Lyr, about the four royal children transformed into swans. And of course, in keeping with the first book, the background is a major contemporary problem, not child or spousal abuse or homelessness, which of course do occur in Ireland as well as Seattle, but the Troubles, which one is not supposed to speak of, though everyone does.
I wanted to make use of all of the research I had done in Ireland while writing the Powers books with Anne McCaffrey. Since Felicity Fortune, the fairy godmother from The Godmother, is Irish, it made sense that she would return to Ireland after her adventures, perhaps a bit drained. To bolster her up she takes along a girl from the first book who has decided being a beautiful princess is not socially relevant enough for her. She wants to be a godmother too. I became interested in the Irish Travelling People while I was there and so one of the human characters turned out to be a Traveller, as did all of the cats, however temporarily, when they went to bury The King of the Cats, one of my favorite folktales. The stories in this book are less familiar to readers, perhaps, than Cinderella, Snow White, and some of the more common ones in The Godmother. But I hope readers new to them will be as fascinated as I was with the Irish historio-mythic cycle. My other favorite tale was The Children of Lyr, about the four royal children transformed into swans. And of course, in keeping with the first book, the background is a major contemporary problem, not child or spousal abuse or homelessness, which of course do occur in Ireland as well as Seattle, but the Troubles, which one is not supposed to speak of, though everyone does.
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