Malvina of Brittany

Malvina is a fairy from medieval Breton legend, exiled to a mortal sleep for her reckless magic. When Flight Commander Raffleton kisses what he believes to be a statue in a ruined chapel, he inadvertently wakes her after four hundred years. Now she must navigate an England of motorcars, aircraft, and bewildering social conventions while he grapples with the impossible: a real fairy in his sitting room, complete with ancient grievances and modern mischief. Jerome K. Jerome, the beloved humorist behind Three Men in a Boat, crafts something unexpected here: a whimsical meditation on immortality, belonging, and the loneliness of being utterly unmoored from one's own time. The comedy sparkles, but beneath lies something poignant: a creature old as legend confronting a world that has forgotten magic entirely, learning that even fairy hearts can ache for connection.