The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
core novel 2015 Fairyland
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.16 (2,925 ratings, collected 2026-09-15) |
| Page count | 235 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781472112828 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The fourth book in the Fairyland series shifts its focus away from September to a new protagonist, a young troll named Hawthorn. Stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind as an infant, Hawthorn is left as a changeling to be raised as a human boy in Chicago, growing up without any memory of his true nature. At around age twelve he begins to sense that something in his life does not fit, and he eventually finds a way back toward the Fairyland he was taken from as an infant. On his return he discovers the land has changed enormously since the events of the earlier books, and he becomes entangled in a rebellion led by other changelings seeking to reclaim what was taken from them. Hawthorn's journey runs in parallel to September's own developing story elsewhere in the series.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fairyland
- Series: The Fairyland Series core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Notes
- From the series record (The Fairyland Series): The 5-novel Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan) core sequence, 2011-2016.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Fairyland Series: position 4 of 5: previous The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (2013) · next The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (2016)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Circumnavigated_Fairyland_in_a_Ship_of_Her_Own_Making
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyland_(series)
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