Little People [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

When a lad of eight or so, Michael saw an elf in the garden. This made an immense impact on his life. He became a boy with Something to Hide, and it showed. Unfortunately, the first wasn't the last elf he saw. After confessing to his girlfriend Cruella that he saw an elf--a revelation she isn't terribly enthusiastic about--he somehow ends up with an elfin attendant who, in the process of explaining what really goes on at his stepfather's shoe factory and why there was an elf in the garden, takes him to Elfland, as dangerous a place as fairy tales would have one believe. Although it involves losing whole years and getting arrested often, Michael determines to rescue the elves from their shoe-factory servitude. Regrettably, he does almost everything without first thinking it through, so any success he enjoys tends to be more accidental than intentional. Chattily entertaining, his story also moves along at quite a clip, rather like Elfland, in which dull bits can be fast-forwarded. Regina Schroeder
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Praise for Tom Holt: 'Uniquely twisted ... cracking gags' Rob Grant, THE GUARDIAN, 'Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing' MAIL ON SUNDAY, 'Frothy, fast and funny' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY, 'Dazzling' TIME OUT, 'Wildly imaginative' NEW SCIENTIST

Comic fantasy from a pioneer of the genre, and author of }Who's Afraid Of Beowulf?{ and }Snow White the Seven Samurai{.

'I was eight years old when I saw my first elf.' ...And for unlikely hero Michael it wasn't his last. Michael's unfortunately (but accurately) named girlfriend Cruella, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people, but the problem is that they won't leave him alone. And who can blame them when it is his own stepfather who is responsible for causing them so much misery. Oh yes. Daddy George knows that elves can do so much more than the gardening. Find out more about this and other Orbit titles at www orbitbooks.co.uk

Tom Holt is the author of such comic fantasy classics as: Expecting Someone Taller, Who's Afraid of Beowulf?, Flying Dutch, Ye Gods!, Overtime, Here Comes the Sun, Grailblazers, Faust Among Equals, Odds and Gods, Djinn Rummy, My Hero, Paint Your Dragon and Open Sesame