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Garden Spells
By: Sarah Addison Allen , Lisa TuttleeBook Publisher: Random House
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Reader Review: With an apple tree that has a mind of its own and fruit that will show people the most important event of their lives, the Waverleys are a special family. Each member of the family (all females throughout the book) has her own special gift. An older member gets urges to give people items, seemingly random and useless, that end up being exactly what they need. Claire has the ability to use plants from her garden to alter people's feelings up to a point. She can't seem to convince a man from falling in love with her regardless of what she feeds him. The story of homecoming for Claire's sister and niece is touching as is Claire's discovery of what lies beyond her home. The romantic developments are nice and fluff out the book, but it really is about finding your place in the world and recovering from the hurts that life inflicts. Extremely well-written and constructed beautifully, I hope to see more of the characters that make this book great. It was fun seeing Claire and Bay (grown up!) in Peach Keeper. Would it be too much to hope for to anticipate Bay's story?
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Sarah Addison Allen's The Peach Keeper and The Girl Who Chased the Moon.
In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.…
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.
A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plants—from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleys—except for Claire’s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.
When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claire’s quiet life is turned upside down—along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy—if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom—or with each other.
Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its own….
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| Title of eBook: Garden Spells | |
| Release Date: 08-28-2007 | |
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| Publisher: Random House Publishing Group |
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| SKU | 9780553904123 |
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Garden Spells
Chapter One
Chapter One
Every smiley moon, without fail, Claire dreamed of her childhood. She always tried to stay awake those nights when the stars winked and the moon was just a cresting sliver smiling provocatively down at the world, the way pretty women on vintage billboards used to smile as they sold cigarettes and limeade. On those nights in the summer, Claire would garden by the light of the solar-powered footpath lamps, weeding and trimming the night bloomers-the moon vine and the angel's trumpet, the night jasmine and the flowering tobacco. These weren't a part of the Waverley legacy of edible flowers, but sleepless as she often was, Claire had added flowers to the garden to give her something to do at night when she was so wound up that frustration singed the edge of her nightgown and she set tiny fires with her fingertips.
What she dreamed of was always the same. Long roads like snakes with no tails. Sleeping in the car at night while her mother met men in bars and honky-tonks. Being a lookout while her mother stole shampoo and deodorant and lipstick and sometimes a candy bar for Claire at Shop-and-Gos around the Midwest. Then, just before she woke up, her sister, Sydney, always appeared in a halo of light. Lorelei held Sydney and ran to the Waverley home in Bascom, and the only reason Claire was able to go with them was because she was holding tight to her mother's leg and wouldn't let go.
That morning, when Claire woke up in the backyard garden, she tasted regret in her mouth. With a frown, she spit it out. She was sorry for the way she'd treated her sister as a child. But the six years of Claire's life before Sydney's arrival had been fraught with the constan
Title: Garden Spells July 2, 2011 With an apple tree that has a mind of its own and fruit that will show people the most important event of their lives, the Waverleys are a special family. Each member of the family (all females throughout the book) has her own special gift. An older member gets urges to give people items, seemingly random and useless, that end up being exactly what they need. Claire has the ability to use plants from her garden to alter people's feelings up to a point. She can't seem to convince a man from falling in love with her regardless of what she feeds him. The story of homecoming for Claire's sister and niece is touching as is Claire's discovery of what lies beyond her home. The romantic developments are nice and fluff out the book, but it really is about finding your place in the world and recovering from the hurts that life inflicts. Extremely well-written and constructed beautifully, I hope to see more of the characters that make this book great. It was fun seeing Claire and Bay (grown up!) in Peach Keeper. Would it be too much to hope for to anticipate Bay's story?
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