Not convinced. It wasn't bad, but it felt like a bit of an avoidance of the difficult elements to resort to a ghost and magic. Josey is trapped in her childhood home by her feelings of obligation to caring for her mother - who she doesn't really get on with. Her whole life is consumed by looking aft...
What a sweet refreshing book. I loved how each chapter was named after a candy and made me hungry for sweet tarts. I fell in love with all the characters in this book, even Margaret with all her nastiness. Chloe would have to be my favorite though. Who wouldn't love having a the right book show ...
The story centres on Josey, a 27 year old who still lives at home caring for her aged, needy mother (Margaret) out of a sense of retribution for the way she behaved as a child. One day a 37 year old woman named Della Lee literally shows up in her closet, wet and wearing only one shoe. Della Lee enco...
My favorite thing about Sarah Addison Allen's books? The way food is a character in its own right, that it is a motivator, an expression of emotion, more than just sustenance.It's no coincidence that I want to eat her books.
I had heard good things about her books, and I do like magical realism so I thought why not. And now, now I think, why not sooner!?This was a wonderful light book, I could not put it down. It had everything it should have, a bit of magic that seemed so real. Books that follow someone around. Light a...
Really sweet, romantic book! I am so jealous of Chloe and her little friends!Josey lived with her overbearing mother who makes her suffer it seems for her being such a brat when she was little. Now she's 27 and really done nothing with her life. One morning she opens her window to see a ladder ou...
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