Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
This novel is a work of gentle magical realism set in North Carolina, centered on the Waverley sisters and their extraordinary garden. Apples hint at the future, edible flowers influence moods, and the garden becomes a place of reckoning, return, and repair.
The story understands something gardeners know instinctively. Tending living things often changes the people doing the tending, whether they notice it or not.
Garden Spells is a fitting February read, a reminder that gardens can hold meaning, memory, and transformation even when the season appears quiet.