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Book ID anyone?
Feb. 23rd, 2006 01:09 pmI'm trying to ID a book that I read back in the fall of 1991 in a library in Wales, but I can't remember the title or author. I figured maybe someone here would have an idea.
It was set in a sort of generic pastoral small village in rural England, vaguely like Angela Thirkell's books - 20th century, but in that timeless mid-century sense. The main character of this book writes a novel about how one day a faun (I think it was) came into a similar pastoral rural village, playing his panpipes, and capering around, and then vanished, and how this bizarre happening had an effect on the village and its inhabitants. She'd based the village and its inhabitants on her *own* village, and the second half of the book was about how the novel she wrote had the exact same sort of effect on her village that the faun did on her fictional village.
Anyone have any clue? I don't remember when it was published; it has to be 1991 or earlier, since I read it then, and it could even be much earlier.
(I'm about to shower, pack, and head off to the con; and the last I heard their net connection was down, so I may or may not be able to answer before Sunday night.)
It was set in a sort of generic pastoral small village in rural England, vaguely like Angela Thirkell's books - 20th century, but in that timeless mid-century sense. The main character of this book writes a novel about how one day a faun (I think it was) came into a similar pastoral rural village, playing his panpipes, and capering around, and then vanished, and how this bizarre happening had an effect on the village and its inhabitants. She'd based the village and its inhabitants on her *own* village, and the second half of the book was about how the novel she wrote had the exact same sort of effect on her village that the faun did on her fictional village.
Anyone have any clue? I don't remember when it was published; it has to be 1991 or earlier, since I read it then, and it could even be much earlier.
(I'm about to shower, pack, and head off to the con; and the last I heard their net connection was down, so I may or may not be able to answer before Sunday night.)
