num_pages: 563
description: Earning comparisons to wildly popular fantasy novels by Deborah Harkness and Lev Grossman Emily Croy Barkers enchanting debut offers an intelligent escape into a richly imagined world. And with an appealing female protagonist cinematic storytelling wry humor and wonderfully clever literary references The Thinking Womans Guide to Real Magic is sure to capture the imaginations of readers everywhere. During a miserable weekend at a friends wedding eager to forget about her disastrous breakup and stalled dissertation Nora Fischer wanders off and somehow finds herself in another realm. There she meets glamorous Ilissawho introduces Nora to a decadent new worldand her gorgeous son Raclin. But when the elegant veneer of this dreamland shatters Nora finds herself in a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. And the only way she can survive is by learning real magic herself.
language: English
title: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
publisher: Pamela Dorman Books