Midnight at the Blackbird Café

by Heather Webber

I loved it.  A little magic, a lot of love and family and friends, heartbreak and healing.  It’s a complicated story line with lots of characters.  Anna Kate Callow’s grandmother, Zee, died and left The Blackbird Café to Anna Kate in her will, but with the stipulation that Anna Kate would stay in Wicklow for several months, at which time the café would be hers.  There’s magic in the pies (people who eat them hear messages of love from those who have died).  At first, Anna Kate doesn’t know what creates the magic.  Her grandmother managed to provide all the guidance she needs.  There are blackbirds who sing at night but only if the pies contain a specific ingredient.  Characters include Jena and Bow who help in the kitchen; Summer and her father Aubin; Gideon, Zee’s attorney who lives next door; Natalie and her parents, Doc and Seelie; and plenty of others.  A second read in a few years wouldn’t go amiss.

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