{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?”<\/p>\n
The Little Country<\/strong> by Charles de Lint, published in 1991<\/p>\n Janey discovers an unpublished novel called The Little Countr<\/strong>y, 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It’s about good guys who work together and bad guys who are so bad that other bad guys want to kill them.<\/p>\n