TY - BOOK AU - Fawcett,Heather TI - Emily Wilde's compendium of lost tales: a novel T2 - Emily Wilde SN - 9780593500224 AV - PR9199.4.F39 E455 2025 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20250130 PY - 2025///] CY - New York PB - Del Rey Books KW - Women scholars KW - Fiction KW - Universities and colleges KW - Magic KW - Faery (Imaginary place) KW - Imaginary places KW - Fairies KW - Blessing and cursing KW - Magic realist fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "Emily has been obsessed with faerie stories her entire life, but at first she feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she did to the mortal world: How can an unassuming scholar such as herself pass for a queen? Yet there is little time to settle in, for Wendell's murderous stepmother has placed a deadly curse upon the land before vanishing without a trace. It will take all of Wendell's magic--and Emily's knowledge of stories--to unravel the mystery before they lose everything they hold dear."-- ER -