# The Humming Machine

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- Book: [The Humming Machine](https://www.bookquiver.com/berlie-doherty/the-humming-machine) ([The Humming Machine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/berlie-doherty/the-humming-machine.md))
- Authors: [Berlie Doherty](https://www.bookquiver.com/berlie-doherty)
- Publisher: Young Corgi
- ISBN: 978-05-5256-838-8
- Pages: 138
- Published: 2013-07-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Great-grandpa Toby is making so much NOISE! And if Tam can hear the clamour coming from his humming machine, the fairies will too. And soon enough, on the night of a blue moon, Great-grandpa Toby vanishes without a trace. While battling nightmarish fairies and decoding the words of the Flame-Reader, Tam eventually discovers his Great-grandpa has been captured by the beautiful Damson Hag, and turned into a nine-year-old boy! Bewitched, fed only with rose petals, and mournfully playing the humming machine to himself, Great-grandpa Toby is tempted to stay in Faery Land and be young for ever... Unless Tam has anything to do with it.