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The Tooth Fairy, by Graham Joyce, Tor, 1998, $22.95
It's easy to see why this book won the British Fantasy Award last year in London for the UK Signet Books edition. The Tooth Fairy is one of those near-perfect novels that grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go until the last sentence, a seamless journey through the growing pains of three young English boys and the one main girl in their lives. Joyce captures all the miserable angst and profound joys of childhood with these characters: The bonding, and eventual drifting apart of their tightknit camaraderie. The first loves, and lost loves. The ways in...