If I could remember more about the book, I coudl find it myself.

December 1, 2007 8:31 PM

Fairies; fur-lined cloak. Find me the book.

I remember so little about this book from my childhood that I'm sure I'm throwing away this week's question, but I would be so happy to find it again. I've been looking off and on ever since we moved in the fourth grade and the library at my new school didn't have it.

Here's what I remember: there's a women. She encounters fairies, perhaps during some sort of midwinter festival. She ends up living for some time in a subterranean fairy kingdom, a network of caves, as I remember; she wears a fur-lined cloak or dress to keep warm. Eventually, of course, her sojourn with the fairies ends.

Set in some sort of non-specific (at least in my memory) "olden days," I think.

I'm perfectly prepared to read my way through some books with fairies in the coming weeks in the hopes of chancing upon it. Anybody? Anybody? Hello?

posted by not that girl to writing & language (6 comments total)

Oh, and for what it's worth, fourth grade would have been 1974-75 for me, so published before then.
posted by not that girl at 8:31 PM on December 1, 2007

Mrs. Lecteur says it might be The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope, published in 1974. Beings called "the Fairy Folk" live in a cave at the bottom of a well, and the heroine is captured and has to be one of their servants. She wears some sort of fur tunic thing, apparently.
posted by Hypocrite_Lecteur at 8:43 PM on December 1, 2007

Looking at ploy synopses on-line, it looks like Mrs. Lecteur might have nailed it in one!

It's not even an obscure book.
posted by not that girl at 8:56 PM on December 1, 2007

Definitely The Perilous Gard. The heroine wears a fur-lined dress/robe, and is imprisoned by the Fairy Folk in a network of subterranean caves where they live.
posted by andraste at 12:00 AM on December 2, 2007

Wonderful! I've been looking for that book since I misplaced it in the school library in junior high. Wow, that takes me back. Thanks all (questioner and responders!)
posted by librarylis at 12:49 AM on December 2, 2007

Did you notice that you can start reading it this instant via Google Books? O, glorious interweb!
posted by roger ackroyd at 1:43 PM on December 2, 2007