An astronomer in the 1700s, a bridge worker in the 1930s, and an expatriate banker returning home in the early twenty-first century: all three are transformed by this one magical event. The Body in the Clouds tells the story of one such extraordinary moment-a man falling from the sky, and surviving-and of the three men who see it, in different ways and at different times, as they stand on the same piece of land.

What if it was something so marvelous that it transformed time and space forever? Imagine you looked up at just the right moment and saw something completely unexpected. “Exquisite…a rich, meditative novel that explores the connectivity of people living in the same geographical space across the distance of time.” - New York Times Book Reviewįrom the acclaimed author of the “exquisitely written and deeply felt” (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwayman’s Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred years. Together, Ava, Kristen, and Ellen embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen. Desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, Kristen sets off on a quest she’s avoided her whole life-to find her never-been-there father in the hopes of winning her freedom from the grandmother she barely knows. Grieving deeply, Ellen is determined to fix up her daughter’s ramshackle house, sell it, and then sweep her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, off to a saner, calmer life in Raleigh.

Meanwhile, successful architect Ellen Foster has arrived in Dove Pond to attend the funeral of her estranged daughter, Julie.

Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she’s been hiding for over a decade. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Just as her fabulous new tearoom is about to open, her herbal teas have gone wonky. New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins returns to her beloved Dove Pond series with another “mesmerizing fusion of the mystical and the everyday” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author)-but this time, the magic is in the tea leaves.Īva Dove-the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialty Teas-is frantic.

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