Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div><b>The magical <i>New York Times</i> bestseller.</b></div><div></div>                  In a garden surrounded by a tall fence tucked away behind a small quiet house in an even smaller town is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree and the extraordinary people who tend it....<br><b></b>The Waverleys have always been a curious family endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit and its edible flowers imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.<br><br>A successful caterer Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plants--from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile her elderly cousin Evanelle is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleys--