Although it takes place in the 17th century, Modern fairies, the first novel by the British author Clare Pollard (Bolton, 1978) that we can read in English thanks to Club Editor and the work of Yannick Garcia, is written from a radically contemporary perspective. Presented with more sense of humor and irreverence than the Hamnet of Maggie O'Farrell (L'Altra / Libros del Asteroide, 2021) and in a more credible tone than the torn-apart rereading of the Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë by Emerald Fennell, 2026, Pollard sends readers to the lavish Parisian salons in which writers such as Charles Perrault (1628-1703) and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1652-1705) contributed to popularizing and redefining the fairy tales that, in many cases, had grown above all thanks to word of mouth among the rural population.