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Hardback, Large Print Edition
Published: 7th March 2023
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Published: 28th February 2023
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Published: 30th May 2023
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Black Candle Women
By (Author) Diane Marie Brown
Thorndike Press
Thorndike Press
7th March 2023
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Family life fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Hardback
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women living under one roof and the family curse that stems back to a Voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans
Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them.
But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before its even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies.
Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, the family is set on a collision course dating back to a Voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleanss French Quarter—where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love…