Hello, darlings. You're listening to Heaving Busoms, the podcast where two friends talk about a new romance novel each week.

This week we surprised ourselves, opting for sweetness and ambience

over our usual muddyutty requirements.

We're skipping the pleasantries because there's enough goodness to go around

with Sarah Addison Allen's Garden Spells.

Enjoy.

Today we're keeping with our Halloween theme and doing garden spells.

It is a book about two sisters who are witches.

Basically if you liked Practical Magic

but you didn't really like the dead guy

or the weird ants.

Or you really like Kilmewa,

Paracholate, but you didn't really like

the tragedy of that book, this is the book for you.

It's just two kind of vaguely witchy sisters in a quaint town in South Carolina and it's

about them falling in love. I listened to this book on a plane

back from Thailand last year and I listened to it on audible and I found it to be

very very charming.

Reading it back, I didn't like it quite as much.

I think, well I know for sure on the way back from Thailand,

I had dengue fever, so I think that kind of, oh God, kind of colored it.

What do you think, Mel?

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