Like all fairytales, it is at times dark, suspenseful, frightening but with a touch of humour and, of course, a happy ending. While Thornhedge clocks in at less than 150 pages, it packs the emotional wallop of a book three times this size, helpfully reminding us that no one is doing more with less in the fantasy space than Kingfisher.

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But a few hundred years later a legend of a beautiful sleeping maiden still endures, and a quiet, calm and very polite knight appears in Toadling’s life, disturbing the years and years spent carrying out her self-imposed sentence of guarding the evil.He offered an alternative: that perhaps, like all things, changelings are of many natures and temperaments.

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An unassuming, average-looking member of the fairy folk Toadling is an outsider even among her own people. Human brain wants explanations and reason for evil because it’s more rational then, rather than “just because”, and probably susceptible to fixing it with enough effort and care.When a fumbled blessing becomes a curse, the changeling child she is to protect becomes the horror Toadling must secure to protect everyone else. Pale, fair-haired men striding down from the north and dark-skinned men in beautiful armor riding in on horses from the east. My dear Toadling, I loved her so much, her story could have been so tragic and yet ends up so sweet. Goodness, I could go on and on and on with the extremely implausible historical setting of this retelling! I would have enjoyed more space given to let the story flow and at times it seems it would have benefitted by playing around with its own elements more.