I fell in love with this novel in my teens and I'm rereading it now after almost 15 years. Tear-jerking and heart-warming at the same time, this was written in the context of a modern fairytale.
In Bascom, North Carolina, everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women (and this has nothing in common with the Witches of Waverley Place). The house that's been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions.
Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic. Claire has always clung to the Waverleys' roots, tending the enchanted soil in the family garden from which she makes her sought-after delicacies - famed and feared for their curious effects.
She 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. Claire's carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control.
Claire is also brought face-to-face with her half-sister, Sydney, and Sydney's daughter, Bay, both of them carrying much of the magic the Waverley bloodline has. A book of sisterly love and opening heart's doors to welcome in love, this book is sure to captivate the female reader till the last page.
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