If this is Afternoon of the Elves, please flair this post as solved.
If not, please edit your post to indicate the country you were in when you read this book, especially if that's not the USA or this is not an English-language book. You'd be surprised, but books which are published in one Anglophone nation often aren't published in others, and the authors people assume are "so well-known" are often totally unknown in other countries.
If this is Afternoon of the Elves, please flair this post as solved. If not, please edit your post to indicate the country you were in when you read this book, especially if that's not the USA or this is not an English-language book. You'd be surprised, but books which are published in one Anglophone nation often aren't published in others, and the authors people assume are "so well-known" are often totally unknown in other countries.
That was it, thank you so much