It has been a few years since we last heard from the incomparably talented Sarah Addison Allen. I absolutely adore her tales of magical realism and can’t wait to dive into First Frost! Sarah has a way of making you fall in love, head-over-heels in love, with stories and books. Her novels seem to capture that feeling you felt when you first connected with a book in a way that was truly magical. Perhaps it’s because she writes fairytales for adults, because she can distill specific emotions into just the right words at just the right time. I am really looking forward to First Frost and was delighted to see that it is a continuation from her debut novel, Garden Spells.
Featuring characters from her beloved novel, Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen’s new novel picks up ten years after that eventful summer when Claire Waverly’s wild half-sister Sydney returned to Bascom and Claire met her now-husband Tyler. Things have settled down and Claire finds she has slipped back into a place of tightly sequestered sameness. It’s comfortable. She likes it. But when her father Russell shows up he brings with him information that Claire doesn’t want to hear and that will challenge everything she thought she knew about herself. Filled with Sarah Addison Allen’s characteristic magic and warmth, this novel will reveal how the people who come into your life may not be the ones you expect, but they’re there for a reason. And they don’t change your one true voice, they make it louder.
FIRST FROST by Sarah Addison Allen
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press