by Sophie Powell
Charlotte and her six-year-old daughter Lily go to the country visit her estranged sister Beth, her teenage son and identical triplet daughters. Lily adores the girls, especially after she is told the story of the Mushroom Man, who lives in the nearby forest and builds umbrellas for the fairies. Lily claims to have met him, and when the family wakes up one morning to find Lily gone, they all wonder who it was Lily actually met.
This was a short little book, with enough characters to potentially become confusing, but it really wasn't. It's hard to like Charlotte very much, or her husband Richard either for that matter, but Beth and the children are charming and realistic. The ending is left for the reader to decide, which sometimes bothers me, but in this case, fit with the book perfectly.
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