The Limits of Enchantment: A Novel

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Everything Fern Cullen knows shes learned from her Mammy -- and none of its conventional. Taught midwifery at an early age Fern grows up as Mammys trusted assistant in a small English village and learns through experience that secrets are precious men cant be trusted hippies are filthy and people should generally mind their own business. But when one of Mammys patients allegedly dies from a potion prescribed to induce abortion the towns people rally against her outdated methods and Mammy ends up hospitalized due to a bad fall and a broken heart. Now the county is threatening eviction if Fern cant come up with the overdue rent and a bunch of hippies and a woman with hoop earrings with a mysterious connection to Mammy seem to be the only people with any answers. As Fern struggles to save her home and Mammys good name everything around her begins to transform and she soon uncovers a legacy spotted with magic. The Limits of Enchantment is at once a story of two women: one with a deep past and one who finds her history in the other. It is a tale of midwifery alchemy magic truth and identity from an author with the extraordinary ability to blend literature and fantasy with surprising dexterity.