Found this book in a box of donations for bookcrossing...going to read this one before it's released - it has a whole page of recommendation by Neil Gaiman and that is good enough for me!

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Amazon Editorial Review:

The Good Fairies of New York tells the fish-out-of-water story of two Scottish thistle fairies who find themselves in Manhattan. The fairies hook up with two humans, Kerry (complete with colostomy bag) and Dinnie (antisocial in the extreme), finding time to help both get their acts together. A book that brings together race riots and Scottish folklore, The Good Fairies of New York is anything but a typical fairy fantasy.

I picked this up at the recent Cherry Tree meet.

Ready for wild release!

This book is being given to the Nottingham Uncon committee for reasons unknown...

Thankyou for sending me this for use at the Uncon :-)

This book from my wish list was in my goody bag at the Unconvention.

Thanks very much to gingergeoff for providing it : )

Dinnie strode up to the bed and loudly requested that Heather and Morag leave immediately as he did not believe in fairies. The fairies burst out laughimg.
"You are funny," chortled Heather, but the action of laughing upset her precarious hangover and she threw up again, all over Dinnie's arm.
"Well, he certainly believes in us now!" screamed Morag.
"Don't worry," said Heather. "Fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans."
They both went back to sleep and no amount of abuse from Dinnie could wake them.

Scottish thistle fairies Heather MacKintosh and Morag MacPherson arrive in New York by accident after leaving Scotland in disgrace, accompanied by two Irish and three Cornish fairies, but are separated from their friends almost immediately, after getting extremely drunk. Having fallen out with each other over who is the best fairy fiddler in Scotland (a long-standing argument), Heather and Morag end up living on opposite sides of Fourth Street, Heather with a human member of her Scottish clan, Dinnie MacKintosh, who is grumpy, unprepossessing and the worst fiddle player in New York, and Morag with Kerry, a chronically ill young woman who is re-creating a Celtic flower alphabet so that she can beat her ex-boyfriend in a local arts association competition.

Heather and Morag cause chaos wherever they go, but their fairy friends are also getting on the wrong side of New York's Chinese, Italian and Ghaniaian fairy bands, and it is only the expected arrival of a massive fairy army tasked with returning the tyrannical Cornish King's runaway son and daughter to Cornwall that gets t hem to join forces.

The triple-bloomed Welsh poppy that Kerry needs to complete her Celtic flower alphabet is a macguffin, being constantly lost and found, stolen and retrieved, and it passes through the hands of most of the characters (both human and fairy) at one time or another.

This lively and enjoyable story was a quick read which I got thorough in a single afternoon.

Released at the Nottingham meet-up.

Picked up from the meet. Cheers!