''Solstice Wood'' is a 2006

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novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip, the sequel to her 1996 novel ''Winter Rose''. It won the 2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.Mythopoeic Awards - Fantasy
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Summary

As a bookseller in California, Sylva Lynn has a comfortable life away from her family. But after receiving word that her grandfather has died, she reluctantly returns to New York for the funeral. When the old

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protecting their house from the

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fails, Sylva's cousin is kidnapped and replaced with a changeling. Like her relative Rois Melior, the hero of ''Winter Rose'', it is only Sylva, who is part

fairy A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, English, and French folklore), a form of spirit, ...

herself, who is able to cross the border into the other realm to rescue him and return peace to their ancestral home

Awards

*2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

References

External links

* 2006 American novels American fantasy novels Novels by Patricia A. McKillip Ace Books books {{2000s-fantasy-novel-stub

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