For everyone who’s ever wished for a fairy godmother, acclaimed author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough has spun a magical tale that’s the next best thing. Like her award-winning novel, <i>The Healer’s War</i>, which drew on her experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, <i>The Godmother</i> bridges the gap between high fantasy and grim reality. An adult <i>Mary Poppins</i> for the nineties, with a sly touch of whimsy and more than a spoonful of grit, <i>The Godmother</i> delivers what Scarborough fans have come to expect: the unexpected.<br /><br />Rose Samson, a frustrated Seattle social worker, dons a crystal pendant from her friend Linden’s vintage clothing shop and makes a wish—for a fairy godmother for “the whole damned city.” Enter Felicity Fortune, a silver-haired, funkily dressed fill-in for the suddenly absent Linden, and a card-carrying member of “Godmothers (Anonymous): Fair Fates Facilitated, Questers Accomodated, and Virtue Vindicated. True Love and Serendipity Our Specialty.”<br /><br />Felicity’s magic net falls far and wide over Seattle, reining in a cast of characters that make up a modern-day volume of the Brothers Grimm. There’s Sno, the runaway teenage daughter of a rock superstar, whose aging supermodel stepmom has plans for her “fairest of them all” stepdaughter; seven-year-old Hank and his little sister, Gigi, dumped in a shopping mall by their drug-addict mother; Cindy Ellis, a stable keeper with two abusive stepsisters… and more.<br /><br />Woven with a unique blend of warmhearted romanticism and unshrinking realism, <i>The Godmother</i>’s spell is captivating, page after page.
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