Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel Twenty years ago, teenager Tara Martin disappeared in the dense English forest known as the Outwoods, leavingher parents and her brother, Peter, to fear the unthinkable. But on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings and there Tara stands disheveled, unapologetic, and not looking a day over sixteen. It s a miracle, but Peter is skeptical, especially when Tara claims that she was abducted by fairies. As those who loved and missed Tara attempt to understand where she s been for two decades, they begin to ask the same question: Has Tara lost her sanity or have they? "