Publisher's Synopsis
The story of Leonara and her friend Hildegard and their adventures in fairyland.
The Magic Nuts gets off to a lovely start, with interesting characters and settings, of mysterious and magical things.
This fairyland was the place where cruelty, injustice, and sorrow could be understood and resolved.
Mary Louisa Molesworth, An extremely prolific writer-she published approximately 100 booksMrs Molesworth tended to moralize and portray the period of childhood as idyllic.
However, her didacticism was never overbearing, and she wrote some extraordinary visionary novels in the manner of George MacDonald.
