Lessons in Magic and Disaster

From the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Award-winning author ofAll the Birds in the Skycomes 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 ofMagic for Beginnersby Kelly Link and Jonathan Strange andMr Norrellby Susannah Clarke. Jamie'smother, 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. But Jamie has a secret: she's a powerful witch, and now she's decided to teach Serena to cast spells, so hermothercan get her life back. Her magic is a question of exchanges, of creating the world you want to live in. As the strains of her grief start to affect her marriage to Ro, Jamie realises she doesn't knowthewhole 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. Desperately trying to hold it all together, Jamie seeks to understandthesecrets of a three-hundred-year-old magical book, her mother and her wife, before it all falls apart.