I really thought the monsters were finally getting to me when I started reading a book about fairies… but what a book it turned out to be!  I couldn’t put it down – and that had nothing to do with the gloopy slime that has started oozing from the walls.  THE THIRTEEN TREASURES hooks you from the word go.

Tanya is a young girl cursed with the ability to see the fairy realm that exists all around us.  Now, forget your cute winged fairies and replace them with grotesque beasties who talk in rhyme, have bad attitudes and are often downright repellent – like a lot of people in this cave (Tommy… put that stick down, I meant the monsters, not my fellow captives!).   The fey folk revel in punishing Tanya every time she tries to reveal their existence to others – punishments that result in chaos around the house.  Tanya’s weary mother wrongly construes the mysterious breakages are her daughter’s desperate pleas for attention, so Tanya is sent to her grandmother’s house in the country.  And that’s where life gets complicated for Tanya. 

With Fabian, the son of the sullen caretaker, they get caught up in the mystery of a girl who vanished fifty years ago, stolen babies, ghostly figures and an unexpected nighttime intruder…

Michelle Harrison expertly weaves an atmospheric story that keeps you guessing, and looking over your shoulder, as you’re taken to dark places within the realm of mischievous and sinister fairy creatures… 

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