Accidental Magic

By Iris Beaglehole,

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Welcome to Myrtlewood, a quirky town, steeped in magic, tea, and mystery…

Life’s a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn’s mysterious death.

Despite her cousin's sinister manoeuvrings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood and the sprawling, dilapidated Thorn…

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2 authors picked Accidental Magic as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

What can I say? It's witchy, it's fluffy, it's got a murder mystery. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book, because of the amount of the secondhand embarrassment in it, but the characters were likeable, and it's outside of the typical young heroine tropes we see.

The main character is also a single mother, and she has my heart. You that feeling you get when you walk into a room and forget why you went in there. That is this MC in a nutshell. She is that feeling, and watching her navigate the changes to her life…

Paranormal Women’s Fiction: This is a relatively new genre that “celebrates either a midlife or older woman who navigates her life while discovering or developing her own magical powers. Being an older woman, I leapt on this one! Magic realism is present here as is often the case with the paranormal. Interweaving individual paranormal abilities within the town of Myrtlewood, which is itself a city of quirks, with a mystery and a murder demanding to be solved. 

The personalities of the two main characters seem to ruffle the feathers of some readers. However, I viewed the interactions of the mother…

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