Other Birds, Sarah’s long-awaited seventh novel, will be released Sept. First Frost continues the story of the Waverley Sisters from Garden Spells.
In 2015, she revisited the popular setting of her first book. She returned to writing with her 2014 bestselling Lost Lake. Booklist called Sarah's accomplished debut "spellbindingly charming." The novel became a Barnes & Noble Recommends selection, and a New York Times Bestseller.Īfter publishing four bestselling books in five years, Sarah took a hiatus when she was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer at age 39. It was like being able to major in eating chocolate."Īfter graduation, 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. 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. Born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Sarah 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). 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.
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