If you liked The Turf Cutter's Donkey books, you'll like this. Patricia Lynch has a gift for weaving a story, for combining adventure and real boys and girls with characters that are just over the border of fairyland, and with strange places that she gives the semblance of truth. A grey goose, Betsy and Fergus -- the fair and the market place -- a glittering castle and a cabin in the woods, a ballad singer and an apple woman combine to make hosts more friends for Patricia Lynch.