Dimensions
135 x 203 x 22mm
With echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, the small town feel of The Good House, and the joyful wickedness of the Witches of East End novels, THE SPARROWS is a love story told about a place where magic whispers just beneath the surface and almost anything is possible, if you aren't afraid to listen.
The Sparrow Sisters are as tightly woven into the seaside town of Granite Point as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls along the harbor. They are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk.
Patience Sparrow is the town healer and when a new doctor settles into Granite Point he brings with him his own mystery so compelling that Patience is drawn to love him, even as she struggles to heal him.
However, when Patience Sparrow's herbs and tinctures are thought responsible in the death of a local child, Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear, its three hundred year old history resurfaces and a witch-hunt begins. The plants and flowers, fruit trees and high hedges begin to whither and die and the entire town begins to fail; fishermen return to the harbor empty-handed, blight descends on the old elms that line the lanes and birds fall, lifeless, to the ground.
It seems as if Patience and her town are lost until, in an unexpected turn, the women of Granite Point band together to save the Sparrow. As they gather, drawing strength from each other, the tide turns-literally and figuratively and life returns to Granite Point under a clear sky, at last.
