Her big break occurred in 2007 with the publication of her first mainstream novel, Garden Spells, a modern-day fairy tale about an enchanted apple tree and the family of North Carolina women who tend it.
It was like being able to major in eating chocolate."Īfter graduation, Allen began writing seriously. In college, she majored in literature - because, as she puts it, "I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. New York Times Bestselling novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction - a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.īorn and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Allen grew up with a love of books and an appreciation of good food (she credits her journalist father for the former and her mother, a fabulous cook, for the latter). “Sarah Addison Allen writes the kind of books I love rich, magical, irresistible.” - New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips pulses with sensual details.” -The Denver Post a must-read for fans of Alice Hoffman.” - Library Journal “Peppered with Allen’s trademark Southern charm. “In this delectable, read-in-one-sitting treasure, Allen once again demonstrates her astonishing ability to believably blur the lines between the magical and the mundane.” - Booklist Allen masterfully weaves a Southern world of believable characters and keeps readers flipping pages with this dreamy one-nighter.” - Southern Literary Review Thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the passions and betrayals that once bound their families-and uncover the truths that have transcended time to touch the hearts of the living. But when a skeleton is found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, long-kept secrets come to light, accompanied by a spate of strange occurrences throughout the town. Willa has lately learned that an old classmate-socialite Paxton Osgood-has restored the house to its former glory, with plans to turn it into a top-flight inn. The Blue Ridge Madam-built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather and once the finest home in Walls of Water, North Carolina-has stood for years as a monument to misfortune and scandal. It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. “ juggles small-town history and mystical thriller, character development and eerie magical realism in a fine Southern gothic drama.” - Publishers Weekly.
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