{"product_id":"9781835415641","title":"Lessons in Magic and Disaster","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Jane Anders, Charlie \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMyth \u0026amp; legend told as fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 19 August 2025 by Titan Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 31 | 320g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky comes a heartfelt and intimately drawn portrait of a young trans woman witch who teaches her mother magic, following the death of her wife. Perfect for fans of Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie's mother, Serena, has been hiding in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, since her life fell apart. The death of her wife, to cancer, proved too much for Serena. And Jamie, well Jamie hasn’t been doing too well either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Jamie has a secret: she's a powerful witch, and now she's decided to teach Serena to cast spells, so her mother can get her life back. Her magic is a question of exchanges, of creating the world you want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the strains of her grief start to affect her marriage to Ro, Jamie realises she doesn’t know the whole story of what happened to her mothers all those years ago. With Serena heading down a destructive path with her magic, and the secrets Jamie is keeping from Ro piling up, it’s only a matter of time before something gives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperately trying to hold it all together, Jamie seeks to understand the secrets of a three-hundred-year-old magical book, her mother and her wife, before it all falls apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52344898060624,"sku":"9781835415641","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781835415641_e77a954c-9ecf-4e03-b362-47d98b5f2784.jpg?v=1765990497","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781835415641","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}