TWELFTH FAIRY by JAKE VAN DER KAMP ISBN 9789889956578 | Paperback | Chameleon Press | 2009 | HK$150.00 Buy this book from Paddyfield.com

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has so long been unjustly libelled with sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her sixteenth birthday. The Lady Melicia has never denied that she played a part in this unhappy affair but, in her defence, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies? The retelling of a classic fairy tale is set to a background of belief in twelve Fairies who confer miraculous gifts as proofs of God's existence. Things go wrong when one of the twelve turns unbeliever and declares that Fairy gifts are nonsense. The trouble grows as all twelve are called on to provide their gifts to the newborn princess of the realm. Can a religion that disdains blind faith survive this threat to its belief that it has hard evidence of God?