Amy Coombe grew up in California and lived all over the US before moving to the UK, where she puts her degrees in law and modern history to good use by doing something else entirely. She lives in London with her family and three cats. Stay for a Spell is her first novel.
'A delightfully whimsical read, full of moments that are as heartwarming as they are laugh-out-loud funny. Stay for a Spell suggests that the secret to happiness really can be found in your local bookstore (with a devilishly handsome pirate to boot)' —Jenna Levine, USA Today bestselling author of My Roommate is a Vampire 'Look, if you'd said that cozy could be empowering, whimsy could be sexy and curses could be liberating, I think it would have been fair to laugh in your face. But Stay for a Spell serves up a three-course meal of cozy, whimsy and sexy and then turns round and asks if you'd like a dash of hilarious thrown in for good measure too, and wouldn't you know it, this turns out to be the most delicious literary meal you've had all year. I think it is fair to say that I have a heart like an icicle, and yet by the end even my frozen and embittered soul was getting all wibbly around the edges. This is a book that knows exactly what it's doing, and you know exactly what it's doing, and as a result it is the warmest hug and nicest possible time you're going to have wrapped up in its utterly delightful, ridiculously charming and effortlessly compelling pages.' —Claire North, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Sudden Appearance of Hope 'A magical novel filled to the brim with warmth and joy. Honestly, you’ll never want to move out' —Patrick Ness, Award-winning author of The Knife of Never Letting Go