A Trick of the Light

Trick of the Light is the second book in the series The Gnome Trilogy by Birmingham-born Jan McCarthy, whose gothic short story Red Branwen made her a finalist for the 2011 Asham Literary Award. The Gnome Trilogy puts the author squarely within the genre of magical realism. In the first of the series, The Great and the Small (pub. Xlibris 2014), the reader was introduced to a motley crew of human characters - some whom you would want as your friends and some you would stay well away from - ...