Under My Spell

For true fantasy, escapist chick lit you could do a whole lot worse than Deborah Wright's modern magical fairy tale. Cara, a 25 year old witch, is desperate to escape the clutches of her batty mother and applies for a live-in nannying position with the Wilkins family. She’s delighted to get the position, and even more sure that this is the right move for her when she meets her gorgeous next door neighbour Sean. There’s just one thing that could go wrong…

Cara must remember all day, ever day, to act normal. If anyone finds out about her secret double life she’ll lose it all. The combination of normal world disasters and conspiracies of the magical world mean pretending to be normal is nearly a full time job in itself, and that's what makes this book so successful.

At a fundamental level this could be any middle of the road story of girl-meets-boy and (after a few false starts) true love prevails. However, when you add the other standard chick lit theme of girl-works-as-nanny-for-highly-dysfunctional-family, and the theme of girl trying to escape her domineering, highly eccentric mother, you could easily be looking at a disastrous mishmash of plots and end up with a highly confused, not to mention contrived book. But perhaps witchcraft has had more than one role to play in the product of this novel! Deborah Wright must have waved a magic wand over her manuscript and watched with delight as the plot and subplots weave together with the utmost of ease and then become enriched by the addition of witchcraft. The result is a highly enjoyable and entertaining book that you can’t bear to put down.

If you want a well written book, with plenty of laughs, and a cast that jump off the pages to you then this is definitely the book for you.

Buy 'Under My Spell' by Deborah Wright for £4.79 (or used from 1p).

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