Changelings

The other people in the town say that Hugh Andrews is in league with the Devil. Hugh knows that is nonsense, but he won't tell them so, because he thinks it is too obvious to warrant the observation.

To keep him safe from the pious townsfolk, Hugh's mother sends him to live with the Man in the Woods: a hermit who has no name and who communicates with faeries. With the threat of execution looming, Hugh is forced to reckon with the desire to fit in while normality makes no sense.