Heeeeeellllp! Can't remember a title or author...

[littlebigshot]

Hi, this is driving me mad so any help that anyone might give is much appreciated.

 

I'm trying to remember a book I read around 2003. The problem being that the only details I remember are that it was fiction (normal bloke meets fantasy fiction sort of thing), in a black cover with a circle cut out to reveal an inside cover, and a patchy synopsis as follows:

 

It is about a man who inherits (I think) a cottage in the back of beyond. It is in, or near a wood. When he starts living in the cottage he experiences strange goings on in the night though the only distinct event I can remember is that he is visited by a succubus. He visits the wood to discover a world of fairies etc., one of whom he falls in love with after they *you know* together, she becomes a human and...happily ever after.

 

It's a long shot I know but amazon, waterstones, google books and the british library are all useless without the title/author/at least some further detail so if anyone has read this book (you'll remember the naked fairy I'm sure) I would be eternally grateful if you could tell me what it was called!

[kelmaria]

I may be wrong,but is this the book your looking for? http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/once-james-herbert/1498376/

[Kell]

That's just what I was going to suggest. The copy I had was like the one you described and it certainly sounds like the storyline you mentioned.

[littlebigshot]

THAT'S THE ONE!!!

 

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you (copy, paste etc.) You are both amazing, if the internet wasn't such a barrier to physical presence I'd kiss you. You have no idea how long that's been bugging me!

[kelmaria]

your welcome

[Kell]

If you like that one, you might also enjoy The Magic Cottage by the same author...