The author of the National Book Award long-listed When the Moon Was Ours delivers a spellbinding romance about a lush garden and two lovers who fall under its spell. -- School Library Journal , starred review. -- Booklist , starred review A solid, must-have addition to McLemore\'s growing body of work, this fantastical tale will delight her fans and entice a new audience.
Sheer magic: fierce, bright, and blazing with possibility. . . .
Praise for Wild Beauty : No one does magical realism quite like McLemore, and this third novel, laced with slow-burning suspense, folklore, romance, and spun together with exquisite, luxuriant prose, proves it.
Anna-marie McLemore\'s debut novel The Weight of Feathers garnered fabulous reviews and was a finalist for the prestigious YALSA Morris Award, and her second novel, When the Moon was Ours , was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People\'s Literature.
As Estrella tries to help Fel piece together his unknown past, La Pradera leads them to secrets as dangerous as they are magical in this stunning exploration of love, loss, and family.
The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but he\'s even more a mystery to himself; he knows nothing more about who he is or where he came from than his first name.
But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the gardens.
They\'ve also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish.
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world.
Love grows such strange things.
In Wild Beauty, acclaimed YA author Anna-marie Mclemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fate--and pulled apart by reality.
The author of the National Book Award long-listed When the Moon Was Ours delivers a spellbinding romance about a lush garden and two lovers who fall under its spell
