It is 1808. Magic is struggling against science.Mrs Constantia Priddy and her unshakeably practical friend Miss PertinaciaGoodwill are on a frantic mission: to find Conny's lost husband and prevent a disastrous royal elopement. Searching for a purpose in life, the Elfin gentleman Sir Auberon LaFayediscovers radical politics, then falls in love with the desperately ill Princess Amelia. But if the Princess elopes, and saves her life, King George could be sent mad, again. Then Edward Priddy is released from fairy imprisonment -into the wrong century. Can Edward be found in the right time to expose the scandalous truth about the Princess's Elfin lover?A sparkling novel of Sylvia Townsend Warner's Elfinsand Georgette Heyer's Regency manners.
