What it actually delivers is a bewildering mess of a tale, tangled up by too many points of view and seasoned with too many fantasy elements. The Silver Bough promises readers a magic-touched story that takes place in a charming Scottish town on the border of two worlds. Most unexpected is a handsome stranger who will draw all three women into an Otherworld in which luck and love will return to Appleton–if only one of them will believe. When a sudden landslide cuts Appleton off from the wider world–and the usual constraints of reality–the village reveals itself to be an extraordinary place, inhabited by legendary beings, secret rooms, and the blossoming of a rare fruit not seen in decades. And young Ashley Kaldis has come to find her roots, and learns that the town’s fortunes turned when her grandmother was crowned Apple Queen–then mysteriously disappeared. Widowed Nell Westray hopes for a quiet life of gardening in the place where she and her husband spent their happiest moments. And outsiders are still drawn to the charming village, including three very different American women.Įnchanted by Appleton’s famously ornate, gold-domed library, divorcée Kathleen Mullaroy has left her cosmopolitan job to start anew as the town’s head librarian. Now, though the orchards are long gone, locals still dream of the town’s glory days, when an Apple Queen was crowned at the annual fair and good luck seemed a way of life. Nestled on the coast of Scotland, Appleton was once famous for its apples.
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