Sydney comes with her and David’s five-year-old daughter, Bay. Sydney has left her home in Seattle, Washington to escape her abusive boyfriend, David. One day, Claire’s sister Sydney arrives at her home unexpectedly. Townspeople often sneak into the garden to steal one of the prophetic apples, but Claire buries the apples that fall from the tree so that nobody will have to see things that might be upsetting or traumatic for them. Anyone who takes a bite from one of the apples will see the biggest event in their future. Amongst the magical flora in Claire’s garden is an apple tree. Claire’s neighbor, Professor Tyler Hughes, expresses romantic interest in her but she rebuffs him. Evanelle is known in the community for giving people strange gifts which later become exactly what they didn’t know they needed-a flashlight before an unexpected power outage, for example. Claire’s closest relationship is with her elderly cousin, Evanelle. The sisters’ mother also ran away from their family when they were children.
Her sister, Sydney-with whom she had been close as a child-left Bascom ten years ago for New York with the intention of never returning. At the beginning of the novel, Claire avoids close relationships out of fear of being abandoned. Claire’s life is thrown off balance when her estranged sister Sydney returns home after a ten-year absence with a five-year-old daughter in tow. In a twist of magical realism, the plants that grow in the garden possess certain properties that have supernatural effects on whoever consumes them. For generations, the Waverly family has tended the garden behind their family home known for the apple tree and edible flowers that grow there.
The novel tells the story of Claire Waverly, a chef and owner of her own catering company in Bascom, North Carolina. Published in 2007, the book was a New York Times Bestseller. Garden Spells is the first novel by American author Sarah Addison Allen.
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