Product Description

At last, Lady Angelica Cottington returns, in this mysterious and hilarious sequel to Brian Froud's huge international hit Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this quirky and seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album belonging to her long-dead sister, Euphemia. The revelations within tell of fairy enchantments, wanton romance and bawdy trysts - and they cast young Lady Cottington's ancestry into shocking doubt. Along with its mysterious tale of Cottington family deviance, this extraordinary artifact offers near-indisputable evidence of the existence of fairies in the form of letters and never-before-published Victorian photographs of actual fairies, authenticated by Brian Froud, the Cottington Archive, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies. Fairies defiant, fairies au natural and, of course, fairies squashed: they're all here. Without doubt, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album will radically alter the study of the fairies' formerly secret world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102079 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 64 pages

About the Author
Brian Froud is a popular and acclaimed artist, whose imaginative portrayals of fantasy worlds and people are recognised worldwide.

Customer Reviews

Delightfully humorous as the Cottington saga continues
Once again another item from the Cottington archives has been rediscovered and given fairy "authentication" by Brian Froud, the renowned illustrator. The book itself is designed to look like an Edwardian photograph album and has that worn appearance associated with antique books, along with the sepia photographs inside. The whole concept and the artwork is amazing and Froudians (the name for fans of Froud) should definitely have this book in their collection.

The book takes us through pictures and writings from Euphemia Cottington and the young Angelica, Lady Cottington, of the first book; each telling us in an unconscious way more about the story as the pages progress. Each page contains squashed fairies as they proceed to interfere and do their utmost to corrupt our heroine, the virtuous Angelica Cottington.

For those who have the first book, the humour is less Monty Pythonesque and grotesque in this one (the absence of Terry Jones' pantomime dame type of writing is apparent). However, it is replaced by the more subtle and ironic humour of Mr Froud and his wife Wendy, writing together. This gives the story much more depth and focuses us rather more on empathy for the characters. I hope the saga will continue.

Froud Freaks will love it...!
Lovely squashy cover!
The humour is definately lacking Terry Jones but it's worth grabbing for your Froud collection.
Read it to the kids and watch them squirm every time you SNAP! the book closed...Ha, Ha...!!!

Good present
I bought this as a gift for someone and they loved it. beautifully illustrated and entertaining. If you like the rest of Frouds work you won't be disappointed!