Dark Sister - Softcover

During a routine cleaning of a chimney fireplace, she discovers an herbalist's journal; soon after, her life unfurls wildly and runs horribly aground. It seems that the owner of the journal was not just an herb woman, but also a witch with real powers. Inspired by this forgotten woman, Maggie begins to dabble in the arts of Wicca. The gifts it brings her are powerful--a sense of freedom, purpose, even clairvoyance. But every gift has its counterbalance, and Maggie's newfound telepathy allows her to see things she might have wanted to remain hidden. Even more ominously, it seems that in unearthing the journal, Maggie has awakened deep tragedies from an abandoned time, and the evil that now stalks her and her family might be insatiable and unstoppable. --Tamara Hladik

"I won't bother saying Graham Joyce deserves to find a wide audience in America; rather, I think the American audience deserves to discover him." --Jonathan Lethem

"One of those near-perfect novels that grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go until the last sentence." --Charles de Lint

"An eerie and quite lovely coming-of-age tale." --The Washington Post

"An unlikely sprite assumes a sinister incarnation in this exceptional supernatural novel." --Publishers Weekly

"Sharp, freshly imagined, and evocative work, by turns wrenching, funny, and disquieting." --Kirkus Reviews

"The Tooth Fairy explores the relationship between a human and a being that may be real or a construct of the subconscious. This is no idealization of childhood; it is a look at the fantasies, the sins, and the rough-and-tumble of growing up." --Booklist

"An unforgettable story set in the strange and foreign land that is your own childhood--that place where splendor and horror, memory and fantasy, collide. You'll be turning the pages, and wishing you could go on doing so long after the book has ended. A magnificent achievement." --Karen Joy Fowler