Faerie Fruit (Paperback)

When the barren orchards of Berrie-on-the-Wyn suddenly bear fruit again, the whole town learns the oldest fairytale rule there is: to eat of Faerie is to be changed — and not always for the better.

Clarimond Honeysett has buried a husband and built a quiet life among Southtown’s orchards. Tobias Dwerryhouse keeps the taps flowing at the Moss & Mist, north of the river that splits their town in two. They’re newly engaged, and Berrie-on-the-Wyn has been peaceful for longer than anyone can remember.

Then the trees that haven’t fruited in a century start dripping with jewel-coloured, faerie-touched apples and pears — and a stranger with a fiddle starts walking the streets. As the magic spreads and half of Southtown simply vanishes, Clarimond and Tobias realize the fiddler isn’t just passing through: he’s the ageless King of Faerie, and he’s come to take back what was always his.

It’ll take gumption, a clever pair of Boots, and the whole of Berrie’s wit and whimsy to set things right — before there’s no town left to save.

From the author of Wyrde and Wayward and Modern Magick: a cosy, cottagecore fairytale full of magic, mischief, and “large helpings of wit and whimsy” (Publishers Weekly).