The Little Country
{4.5/5} “That was what music was like, she’d always thought. You’d see some old lad like Charlie Fisher, about as commonsensical a man as you’d care to meet, all plain talk and plain facts, but when he brought out his box and woke a tune from the buttons and bellows, well then it was just a kind of magic, wasn’t it?”
The Little Country by Charles de Lint, published in 1991
Janey discovers an unpublished novel called The Little Country, written by her grandfather’s friend who has since died. He published a couple of books during his life, but this book contains a letter saying it should be kept secret.
Jodi succumbs to temptation and enters the local widow’s house when she’s out. People say she’s a witch, and even that she has a Small — a mouse-sized man in a jar.
This novel is about what happens when you cross paths with a secret society that means business. It’s about the joy of making music.
It’s about good guys who work together and bad guys who are so bad that other bad guys want to kill them.
I’ve read 4 books by de Lint. I previously reviewed Trader.