And Sydney's fifteen-year-old daughter Bay has given her heart away to the wrong boy and can't get it back.įrom the author of the New York Times bestselling sensation GARDEN SPELLS, FIRST FROST is magical and atmospheric, taking readers back into the lives of the gifted Waverley women - back to their strange garden and temperamental apple tree, back to their house with a personality of its own, back to the men who love them fiercely - proving that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. Claire's wild sister Sydney, still trying to leave her past behind, is about to combust with her desire for another new beginning. Its October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers. Quiet Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies, but it's nothing like she thought it would be, and it's slowly taking over her life. From the New York Times bestselling author of GARDEN SPELLS comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves. Return to the magical world of the Waverleys in First Frost. But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. He has stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever. Now the tale of the Waverley women is to be revisited with a magical sequel.Īutumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beaten-up suitcase.

It's become a very natural process.Readers fell in love with Sarah Addison Allen's debut novel, GARDEN SPELLS. And it's magical realism now that ultimately inspires the gifts I give my characters. So I tapped into what I've always loved to read, and that's when I finally got published. And it was an important part of my journey to realize that who we are as writers reflects who we are as readers. First Frost book by Sarah Addison Allen ISBN: ISBN13: 9781250019837 First Frost (Book 2 in the Waverley Family Series) by Sarah Addison Allen See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 5.39 - 6.39 Paperback 7.59 - 16.40 Mass Market Paperback 6.79 - 7.19 Audio CD 8.49 - 37. I think I was just so busy trying to follow the market in order to get published that I ignored my own voice. But I wrote for years before finally deciding to incorporate magical realism into my own writing. And I think the newness, the way this literary device opened a whole new world for me, made the first titles I read unforgettable, like first loves: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chapppell, and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel.

It was like cracking open a geode and finding the sparkle inside. Magical realism - when the supernatural blends so seamlessly into the natural world that it doesn't appear unusual at all - captivated me from the moment I first discovered this genre in college.

First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen