Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Podcast – Tales from the Garden – The Last Summer Ball and the Winter Fairy – Part One by Sally Cronin

Tales from the garden is a collection I wrote in tribute to our home in the mountains to the north of Madrid where we lived from 1999 to 2016. We inherited a number of statues from the previous owners that were too big to take with them, and I also found some discarded around the garden. Perfect characters for stories, some of whom moved on with us to Ireland and appeared in Tales from the Irish Garden.

The Last Summer Ball and the Winter Fairy – Part One

Sally Cronin – Smorgasbord Blog Magazine · Tales From The Garden – The Last Summer Ball And The Winter Fairy By Sally Cronin

 

Part two next Sunday – can the fairy kingdom ward off the evil winter fairy?

©Sally Cronin 2023

One of the reviews for the book.

OlgaNM 5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting stories in a magical garden  Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸

I follow Sally Cronin’s Smorgasboard blog […] and know she writes on a variety of themes, from the non-fictional: nutritional and health advice, features and reviews about books and writing, advice on marketing and blogging, and also fictional writing. After reading some of the stories she had shared on-line I had to read this book. And the description is correct.

These are fairy stories for children of all ages. The characters are the stone sculptures in the garden and their adventures contain in equal parts warmth, pathos, magic and fantasy. We have animals escaping from hunting dogs, impossible love stories between humans and fairies, orchestras made up of the most varied characters, and a wonderful dedication to her mother and her gardens. You will go through a variety of emotions and always feel better and more positive by the end of each story. The book will leave you smiling and that’s something that cannot be said of many books these days.

The writing is fluid, perfectly suited to the theme and you get the sense that you’ve been taken into the confidence of the characters and have become an honorary inhabitant of this wonderful garden. The pictures —all from the author and her family’s gardens— that illustrate the book help make the reader feel even more at home.

Recommended to any readers who need a bit of magic and wonder in their lives.

 

Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page My books and reviews 2023