- The Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar
In a dangerous, grungy, pre-Giuliani Manhatten, angry, untalented fiddler Dinnie and flighty, sickly musician Kerry live sad, pathetic lives. They are surrounded by the crazy and drunk homeless who die on their doorsteps and are lost in their personal tragedies.
Into this world burst a group of fairies from the corners of the United Kingdom. Formost among them, rowdy, bawdy, punk-rocking Scottish fairies Heather MacKintosh and Morag MacPherson invade Dinnie’s and Kerry’s lives – bringing with them a good dose of old world magic, but also brining them into contact with the many fairies of other ethnicities that are already resident in the city.
The novel reads like cross between Terry Pratchet and Charles de Lint – with the better aspects of both preserved like Maoist cornish fairies rebelling against a newly industrialized fairy kingdom and the contrasts and overlaps between the fairy and mundane worlds…
The Good Fairies of New York
I bought a copy and loved it… up to a point. It works within its own parameters, but then it’s not supposed to be accurately faerie-lore stuff, it’s a lot of fun. The appalling bloke in it makes you wonder why the faeries don’t attack him and have done with it!!