I know there are a million books out there with your beautiful, ethereal faeries from fairy land out there. They're clever, cruel, divinely gorgeous, and will whisk you out of your hum-drum life and earth to bring you to a place with stunning palaces, clothing, landscapes, amazing food, etc..
But are there any books out there with the more common faeries in? Ones who are just there to help someone with a hard to run life, secretly performing those simple but routinely disheartening tasks that eat away all your time and enjoyment out of life?
Those faeries who ask little, just leave them a cup of milk or a piece of cake, and they'll clean the house, feed the dog, fix the roof, etc. things like that, but don't try to see them or thank them, or they'll leave forever.
Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!
by thelma1907
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Junior fiction: Book of Brownies by Enid Blyton.
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett! It’s really lovely and cheerful. Like much of his work, it’s great for young readers but even better for adult readers.
There are high fairies in Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies but also brownies
Mercedes Lackey seems to have a fondness for brownies. They show up in her 500 Kingdoms series, especially in The Fairy Godmother, and several times in her Elemental Masters series, particularly in Beauty Asleep.
She also has sentient lizard-like creatures who seem to fill the role of brownies in some of her Valdemar fantasy world. They show up in the Owlmage novels.