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Books similar to garden spells6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Booklist called Allen's accomplished debut "spellbindingly charming," and the novel became a BookSense pick and a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection. She sold a few stories and penned romances for Harlequin under the pen name Katie Gallagher but 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 in 1994, 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. North Carolina novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction-a captivating blend of fairy tale magic, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.īorn and raised in Asheville, 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). But then the apple tree started throwing apples and the story took on a life of its own. "It was supposed to be a simple story about two sisters reconnecting after many years. Garden Spells didn't start out as a magical novel," writes Sarah Addison Allen. ![]() Currently-lives in Asheville, North Carolina.Education-B.A., University of North Carolina, Asheville. ![]()
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