Timeline of the Fairy in the Bed series
The Fairy in the Bed series takes place more or less in real time, although their world isn't precisely the same as ours. Here is a book by book dateline, followed by a timeline.
1969
#13 Midsummer Melody
Midsummer 1969. The Skipton Manor Over There. This is a retrospective, showing how Ryl's parents met.
1977 - 1985
# 10 Wish Matched
The story is a retrospective, taking place primarily in Tasmania and Over There in 1985, with flashbacks to 1979 and 1982 when Skye and Simon are in their teens and early twenties. We meet them in other books in middle age. The gateway Si uses is on the site where Peckerdale Grene Community Tower will later stand.
1984 - 2010
#? Seeking Joy
1984 Over There
1985-1988
#? The Kissing Ring takes place at the same time as Wish Matched, initially, but continues to 1988. Tom and Ryl are young here, but we meet them later in middle age. The setting is Tasmania, Over There, and also Peckerdale Grene Community Tower during its building phase
1986
#? Calico Calypso takes place over a few days in February 1986, within The Kissing Ring. Tom and Ryl are mentioned, and Mal and LeeLee appear. It's mainly about Kris and Calypso.
1996 - 2004
#9. Pisky Business
This story begins in 2004, then flashes back to 1996 and 2000. Linda Hobbs, Jory and Tane Pendennis are in their late teens and early twenties. We meet Linda again in her early forties in Honey and the Harvest Hob and Tane, now in his late thirties, turns up in Sam and the Sylvan.
2001 (Christmas Eve)
I Promise
Promise Grene turns 7 and makes a promise to a red-haired boy during a river picnic.
2016 (Spring)
#2 Green Balls
Spring 2016 Peckerdale Green Community Tower and associated areas. Over There.
Peck Grene's first appearance, and first appearance of Oash the sylvan. Peck reappears in Pen and Ink, Floribunda and the Best Men, and by Sam and the Sylvan he's engaged to Chloe. In Man Overboard, in which he plays a small part, they are married.
2016 (Christmas)
#1. Fairy on the Christmas Tree
Christmas 2016. Frances Eckmann and Niall Le Fay spend Christmas together in Sydney and Brisbane.
2017 (Easter)
#3 Horizontal Bunny Hop
Easter 2017. Mab O'Mara gets an an expected surprise when her sister gives her a mystery weekend, hosted by the Vouch-Safe company. Room service has never been so exciting! Linda Pendennis, nee Hobbs, is Mab's driver.
(2017 Summer and Autumn)
#4 Honey and the Harvest Hob
Late summer and early autumn 2017, with flashbacks to 2011
After being jilted at the altar, Honeycomb Bakewell meets Hob Cottman over there. Also set in and around Van Dyk college, which is some hours from Appledore / Patterdale. Linda Pendennis, nee Hobbs, is Honey's driver with the Vouch-Safe company.
2017 (Mid-Winter)
# 6 Hot Summer Knight
Mid-winter 2017. Kendra, who is Frances's cousin, meets Niall's cousin Piers in Sydney when she's pet-sitting for Frances and Niall.
2017 (Spring)
#5 Pen and Ink
Spring 2017
Appledore/Patterdale, Peckerdale Tower. Widowed Pen has a close encounter with a pixie mechanic (Peck from Green Balls and also with Si and Skye Bakewell from Honey and the Harvest Hob and Wish-Matched. Duffy Inkersoll appears in Pisky Business.)
2017 (Late Spring)
#7 Floribunda and the Best Men
Late spring 2017
Appledore, Peckerdale Tower, St Botolphs Church and Braeside over there. Flori, Pen's florist and bridesmaid, teams up with two fay, Hamish and Gervais, (first mentioned in Pen and Ink) at Pen's wedding to Duffy.
2017 (Early summer)
#8 The Courting of Eileen
Early summer 2017
Shamrock Village and Braeside. Eileen and Sean, mentioned at the end of Floribunda and the Best Men, get courting.
2017 (Christmas)
#9 Tied Up in Tinsel
Christmas 2017
Sydney. Frances Eckmann's terrace house. Felicity Echo is happy to service a Christmas wish for little George Dark, but she's a bit startled when she finds out George wants to give her to his dad!
2018 (Summer)
#12 Sam and the Sylvan
Summer 2018. Peckerdale Tower and Over There. Sam Silver gets entangled with the Peckerdale Tower folk, and meets Oash from Green Balls. Tane and Jillian from Pisky Business also reappear.
2018 (Christmas)
#? Christmas Eve
Eve Adeste gets a midwife call and prevails on Raph Angelus to drive her to Frances' terrace house where a Christmas baby is about to make an entrance.
2018 (late summer/ early autumn)
#? Sunshower
Late summer/ early autumn 2018 Over There, and in Patterdale, Victoria. Also in Adelaide, and at The Harvest Hob
Tab and Josefa take a road trip
Promise Grene makes a brief appearance at the tower
2018 (winter)
#? Court in the Middle
Winter 2018 at a manor Over There. Court Leopold arrives to collect his heritage and meets Tansy, the stable hob who is not prepared to hand it over unless he can meet her stringent conditions.
2019 (spring - Christmas)
#? Man Overboard
Spring 2019 at sea and Over There. Jin Peckerdale, daughter of Kris and Calypso, gets embroiled with Zach Rowan. Honey and Hob reappear from Honey and the Harvest Hob, along with Mab O'Mara and Derry Warrener from Horizontal Bunny Hop. We meet Bart Merriweather, Tom's cousin mentioned in The Kissing Ring and his wife Brigitta.
Dec 9th. Corin kidnaps Promise to bring her home to the tower
Promise asks Duffy Inkersoll for help in finding the red-haired boy
Peck and Chloe's wedding is on 15th Dec
Deek Caffrey sends his daughter Gracie to bring Valentine home from Ireland
Christmas Eve: Kris Peckerdale holds his portrait exhibition. Promise's birthday. Deek Caffrey arrives with his family. Promise and Valentine spend Christmas together.
#? Alys by Night
2021. Sir Alys Adair meets Tango Merriweather at a Ren Faire
1969
#13 Midsummer Melody
Midsummer 1969. The Skipton Manor Over There. This is a retrospective, showing how Ryl's parents met.
1977 - 1985
# 10 Wish Matched
The story is a retrospective, taking place primarily in Tasmania and Over There in 1985, with flashbacks to 1979 and 1982 when Skye and Simon are in their teens and early twenties. We meet them in other books in middle age. The gateway Si uses is on the site where Peckerdale Grene Community Tower will later stand.
1984 - 2010
#? Seeking Joy
1984 Over There
1985-1988
#? The Kissing Ring takes place at the same time as Wish Matched, initially, but continues to 1988. Tom and Ryl are young here, but we meet them later in middle age. The setting is Tasmania, Over There, and also Peckerdale Grene Community Tower during its building phase
1986
#? Calico Calypso takes place over a few days in February 1986, within The Kissing Ring. Tom and Ryl are mentioned, and Mal and LeeLee appear. It's mainly about Kris and Calypso.
1996 - 2004
#9. Pisky Business
This story begins in 2004, then flashes back to 1996 and 2000. Linda Hobbs, Jory and Tane Pendennis are in their late teens and early twenties. We meet Linda again in her early forties in Honey and the Harvest Hob and Tane, now in his late thirties, turns up in Sam and the Sylvan.
2001 (Christmas Eve)
I Promise
Promise Grene turns 7 and makes a promise to a red-haired boy during a river picnic.
2016 (Spring)
#2 Green Balls
Spring 2016 Peckerdale Green Community Tower and associated areas. Over There.
Peck Grene's first appearance, and first appearance of Oash the sylvan. Peck reappears in Pen and Ink, Floribunda and the Best Men, and by Sam and the Sylvan he's engaged to Chloe. In Man Overboard, in which he plays a small part, they are married.
2016 (Christmas)
#1. Fairy on the Christmas Tree
Christmas 2016. Frances Eckmann and Niall Le Fay spend Christmas together in Sydney and Brisbane.
2017 (Easter)
#3 Horizontal Bunny Hop
Easter 2017. Mab O'Mara gets an an expected surprise when her sister gives her a mystery weekend, hosted by the Vouch-Safe company. Room service has never been so exciting! Linda Pendennis, nee Hobbs, is Mab's driver.
(2017 Summer and Autumn)
#4 Honey and the Harvest Hob
Late summer and early autumn 2017, with flashbacks to 2011
After being jilted at the altar, Honeycomb Bakewell meets Hob Cottman over there. Also set in and around Van Dyk college, which is some hours from Appledore / Patterdale. Linda Pendennis, nee Hobbs, is Honey's driver with the Vouch-Safe company.
2017 (Mid-Winter)
# 6 Hot Summer Knight
Mid-winter 2017. Kendra, who is Frances's cousin, meets Niall's cousin Piers in Sydney when she's pet-sitting for Frances and Niall.
2017 (Spring)
#5 Pen and Ink
Spring 2017
Appledore/Patterdale, Peckerdale Tower. Widowed Pen has a close encounter with a pixie mechanic (Peck from Green Balls and also with Si and Skye Bakewell from Honey and the Harvest Hob and Wish-Matched. Duffy Inkersoll appears in Pisky Business.)
2017 (Late Spring)
#7 Floribunda and the Best Men
Late spring 2017
Appledore, Peckerdale Tower, St Botolphs Church and Braeside over there. Flori, Pen's florist and bridesmaid, teams up with two fay, Hamish and Gervais, (first mentioned in Pen and Ink) at Pen's wedding to Duffy.
2017 (Early summer)
#8 The Courting of Eileen
Early summer 2017
Shamrock Village and Braeside. Eileen and Sean, mentioned at the end of Floribunda and the Best Men, get courting.
2017 (Christmas)
#9 Tied Up in Tinsel
Christmas 2017
Sydney. Frances Eckmann's terrace house. Felicity Echo is happy to service a Christmas wish for little George Dark, but she's a bit startled when she finds out George wants to give her to his dad!
2018 (Summer)
#12 Sam and the Sylvan
Summer 2018. Peckerdale Tower and Over There. Sam Silver gets entangled with the Peckerdale Tower folk, and meets Oash from Green Balls. Tane and Jillian from Pisky Business also reappear.
2018 (Christmas)
#? Christmas Eve
Eve Adeste gets a midwife call and prevails on Raph Angelus to drive her to Frances' terrace house where a Christmas baby is about to make an entrance.
2018 (late summer/ early autumn)
#? Sunshower
Late summer/ early autumn 2018 Over There, and in Patterdale, Victoria. Also in Adelaide, and at The Harvest Hob
Tab and Josefa take a road trip
Promise Grene makes a brief appearance at the tower
2018 (winter)
#? Court in the Middle
Winter 2018 at a manor Over There. Court Leopold arrives to collect his heritage and meets Tansy, the stable hob who is not prepared to hand it over unless he can meet her stringent conditions.
2019 (spring - Christmas)
#? Man Overboard
Spring 2019 at sea and Over There. Jin Peckerdale, daughter of Kris and Calypso, gets embroiled with Zach Rowan. Honey and Hob reappear from Honey and the Harvest Hob, along with Mab O'Mara and Derry Warrener from Horizontal Bunny Hop. We meet Bart Merriweather, Tom's cousin mentioned in The Kissing Ring and his wife Brigitta.
Dec 9th. Corin kidnaps Promise to bring her home to the tower
Promise asks Duffy Inkersoll for help in finding the red-haired boy
Peck and Chloe's wedding is on 15th Dec
Deek Caffrey sends his daughter Gracie to bring Valentine home from Ireland
Christmas Eve: Kris Peckerdale holds his portrait exhibition. Promise's birthday. Deek Caffrey arrives with his family. Promise and Valentine spend Christmas together.
#? Alys by Night
2021. Sir Alys Adair meets Tango Merriweather at a Ren Faire
Timeline
1930
Peter Peckerdale born
1932
Pia Tillien born
Around 1934
Rory Inkersoll born over there.
1941
Zena "Zen" Fraeman born to a human mother and pisky father
1942
Joseph "Joe" Bakewell born to pixie/human halfling Betula and a human father.
Elizabeth "Liz" ?, later Bakewell, born to human parents (Simon Bakewell's parents to be)
Peter Grene born (Peck and Ryl's grandfather)
1948
Peter Peckerdale has a failed romance with a human woman
Gentian Grene born
1950
Roderick Skipton born
1951
Melody Peckerdale born
Marguerite du Fen born
1952
Rory Inkersoll marries Emer, the braeside lassie he calls My Queen
1955
OASH born to sylvan parents Asht and Oaka over there
Around 1956
Gavin St Clair born
Joanna born
Jenny born
1957
Koh born to Asht and Oaka
Geraint Trip born to hob parents over here
About 1958
Mary Canterbury born - mother still living as of 2000
Rachel Pendennis born (lifelong best friend of Mary)
Merryn "Merry" Pendennis born in the Pisky Hills
Jem Cottman born at the chalk cliffs
Keeley "Kiwi" Weir born in the Pisky Hills. (Merryn's cousin)
1960
Sherry Silver born.
Jillian / Jules Fraeman born to Zena "Zen" Fraeman and an unknown sylvan father
About 1962
Joe Bakewell meets Liz while on a working holiday
1964
SIMON "SI" BAKEWELL born to Joe and Liz
Thomas "Tom" Tambourine Merriweather born to architect Russell and music teacher Kay
1965
Susan "Skye" McFee born to Harry (pixie/human halfling) and Alicia (court/human halfling) McFee in southern Tasmania
Keeley Weir begins to visit the Trip family to learn to pass
About 1966/67
Mal Grene and Leilana "LeeLee" Peckerdale (Peck's parents-to-be) born
1968
Simon Bakewell goes over there when Betula Bakewell's pixie father is dying.
1969
Roderick Skipton plans to propose to Maggie du Fen at the midsummer ball. Instead he meets and proposes to Melody Peckerdale. They later become Ryl's parents.
1970
Ryl Skipton born to Roderick and Melody
1972
Duffy Inkersoll born over there to a son of Rory and "My Queen" and his wife. Twin sisters follow a few years later.
Daveth Porthwellian born over here to pisky parents living human
1975
Gavin and Joanna marry
1976
Mistress Katherine "Kit" St Clair born to Gavin and Joanna St Clair
Mary and Rachel meet Keeley Weir, Jem Cottman and Merryn Pendennis
Lachlan McTavish marries Jenny
1977
GEORGE "JORY" PENDENNIS born to Rachel Pendennis
LINDA HOBBS born to Mary Canterbury
Barrett Jones born
1978
Mistress Eloise "Issy" St Clair born to Gavin and Joanna
Belle Fraser born to Abbie and Paul Fraser
1979
Joe takes Si over there and he meets Mari
Tam visits Merryn Pendennis
1980
GERVAIS ST CLAIR born to Gavin and Joanna
HAMISH MCTAVISH born to Lachlan "Skirling Lachlan" and Janet "Sweet Jenny" McTavish
Tane born to Tam after a liaison with Merryn Pendennis
Matilda du Fen born to Court parents
1981
Sherry Silver meets Jules Fraeman
1982
SAM SILVER born to Sherry Silver
Jules leaves the woodlin for Sam.
Yestin Marsh born to Keeley and Drew Marsh
Si goes over there to meet Mari again.
1982 relative ages
Joanna St Clair 35 / Tom Merriweather 18 / Si Bakewell 18 / Susan McFee 17 / Ryl Skipton 12
Kit St Clair 6 /Jory Pendennis 5 / Linda Hobbs 5 / Issy St Clair 4 / Gervais St Clair 2
1984
Kevern Marsh born to Keeley and Drew
FLORIBUNDA ROSE ALEXANDRIS born to a Greek father and Australian mother
1985 relative ages
Joanna St Clair 38 /Simon Bakewell 21 /Tom Merriweather 21 / Skye McFee 20 /Ryl Skipton 15 /Kit St Clair 9
Issy St Clair 7 /Gervais St Clair 5
1985
Simon Bakewell meets Susan McFee who changes her name to Skye
March
Tom Merriweather helps his father with the early stages of Peckerdale Grene Community Tower and meets fifteen-year-old Ryl Skipton
June Ryl turns 16 and Tom gets her the kissing ring
1986
Caden Marsh born to Keeley and Drew
February Kris visits The Cats' Pyjamas and encounters Calypso
February Kay and Russ visit the tower site and encounter Kris with his cat
October: Tom spends three weeks with his uncle and aunt at the tulip farm
1987
Robin "Hob" Cottman born to Jem and Iris Cottman
Peckerdale Tower completed
June. Ryl turns eighteen and gets betrothed to Tom Merriweather
Tom meets Calypso
1988
Court Leopold born
1989
Si and Skye Bakewell go to the falls on their honeymoon
Peck Grene born to Mal and LeeLee
1990
Honeycomb born to Si and Skye
Sean McTavish born to Lachlan and Jenny
Mab O'Mara born
Flori befriends Tally Beech
1991
Eileen o' the Mist born at Shamrock Village
Linda Hobbs meets Keeley "Mrs Marsh" Weir
1992
Chloe born and adopted by Abbie and Paul Fraser
Tally Beech gives Flori a gift.
Flori's widowed mother remarries and they move.
Corin Peckerdale born to Kris and Calypso
Tansy Thrift born Over There to stable hob parents
1993
Jory and Linda leave school
Jin Peckerdale born to Kris and Calypso
Around 1994/5
Linda moves into a flat in Geraint Trip's house
Geraint is in a casual relationship with Vith, a tree maid, over there
1995
Josefa McCord born
1996
Jory and Linda, now 19, visit their mothers
1997 Jory and Linda are 20. Mary and Rachel are 38
1998
Tom Merriweather and Ryl Skipton married
Vith dies after an accident over there
1999
Linda is 22, working for Vouch-safe
Tabor Merriweather born to Tom and Ryl
2000
Tango Merriweather born to Tom and Ryl
Jory and Linda’s reunion. They’re 23
Skye makes Linda a dress.
Honey Bakewell is 10
Jory and Linda learn what they are, and meet Keeley Weir, Tane and Merryn
Mary and Geraint Trip get together
Merryn and Rachel get together
Belle Fraser marries ? Jessup
Relative ages in 2000
Duffy 28 / Tane 20 . Jillian claims to be 19 but is actually 40
2001
Laura Pomona Pendennis is born to Linda and Jory
Amaryllis Geranium Trip is born to Mary and Geraint
2002
Tempo Merriweather born to Ryl and Tom
Richenda Pendennis born to Merryn and Rachel
2003
Timbre Merriweather born to Ryl and Tom
2004
Jory and Linda's son Jamie Court Pendennis born
2016
Frances Eckmann breaks up with her boyfriend on Christmas Eve and meets Niall Le Fay
2017 comparative ages
Joe and Liz Bakewell 75 / Joanna St Clair and Jenny McTavish 60 / Geraint and Mary Trip, Rachel and Merryn Pendennis, Jem Cottman and Keeley Marsh 58 . Tom Merriweather 53 /Si Bakewell 53 / Skye Bakewell 52 /Ryl Merryweather 46 /Duffy Inkersoll 45
Pen Inkersoll 42 /Kit St Clair 41 Jory and Linda Pendennis 40 / Issy St Clair 39 /Hamish McTavish and Gervais St Clair 37
Floribunda Alexandris 34 /Hob Cottman 30 / Peck Grene 28 /Honey Bakewell 27 /Chloe Fraser around 26 /Josefa McCord 22
Tab Merryweather 18 /
2017
Peck and Chloe engaged
Sam meets Oash
Mab O'Mara meets Diarmaid "Derry" Warrener
Kendra cat-sits for Frances and Niall and meets Piers Le Fay
Ashby Cottman born to Hob and Honey
Mirri born to Jillian and Tane
Felicity "Flick" Echo visits Frances and Niall and meets Charles "Chas" Dark on Christmas Eve
2018
Sean McTavish goes courting Eileen o' the Mist
Tab Merriweather and Josefa McCord form the duo Sunshower and become forevers
Amalie de Courcy comes to stay with Ryl and Tom
Jin Peckerale meets Zach Rowan
Court Leopold finds himself in a sticky situation
2020
Tango Merriweather meets Sir Alys Adair at a renaissance fair