![]() ![]() It’s the strongest conceit of this beautifully written, if somewhat underpowered tale: that fairies are drawn to human ruins, industrial as well as ancient, occupying them once weeds and vines overtake abandoned factories and mines and stone circles. ![]() In “ Among Others,” Walton’s newest work, 10-year-old Morwenna and her twin sister, Morganna, look for fairies, not in the bottom of a garden but lurking in the ruins of a Welsh coal plant. Welsh-born fantasist Jo Walton has built an award-winning career on elegant, quietly subversive novels such as “ Farthing,” an alternate history that sets murder in an English country house against the background of a Britain that made peace with Hitler and “Tooth and Claw,” a riff on Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire series, where dragons stand in for the Victorians and social fence-hopping is enabled by eating one’s betters. ![]()
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