![]() ![]() ![]() With enough grassroots buzz, Allen's mainstream uld become a best seller.It's refreshing to find a Southern novel that doesn't depend on folksy humor or stereotypes but instead on the imaginative use of magical realism. Booklist (Starred review) - Carol Haggas Spellbindingly charming, Allen's impressively accomplished debut novel will bewitch fans of Alice Hoffman and Laura Esquivel, as her entrancing brand of magic realism nimbly blends the evanescent desires of hopeless romantics with the inherent wariness of those who have been hurt once too often. □ Best Women's Fiction of 2007 by the American Library Association's Reading List □ 2008 SIBA Book Award winner for fiction The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today & Publisher's Weekly Bestseller ![]() and her carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control. Claire has everything she thinks she needs, until one day she wakes to find a stranger has moved in next door and a vine of ivy has crept into her garden. ![]()
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