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Carolyn Turgeon

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Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Italo Calvino, Alice Hoffman, ...more

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Carolyn Turgeon is the author of five novels—Rain Village, Godmother, Mermaid, The Fairest of Them All, and The Next Full Moon, most of them based on old-time fairy tales, dark and glimmering—as well as The Faerie Handbook, The Mermaid Handbook, and The Unicorn Handbook.

She's also the editor-in-chief and co-owner of Enchanted Living (formerly Faerie Magazine), a quarterly print publication that the NY Times called “what would happen if Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Martha Stewart Living had a magazine baby.”

She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her punk rock rescue dog Iggy.

Visit Carolyn's website at carolynturgeon.com and Enchanted Living at enchantedlivingmag.com. ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 12,410 ratings · 2,126 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mermaid 3.62 avg rating — 6,116 ratings — published 2011 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story 3.30 avg rating — 2,321 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fairest of Them All 3.78 avg rating — 1,696 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects 4.43 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rain Village 3.72 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mermaid Handbook: An Alluring Treasury of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects 4.11 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Next Full Moon 3.71 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unicorn Handbook: A Spellbinding Collection of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects 4.12 avg rating — 109 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faerie Magazine, Winter 2013 #25: Mermaids by Carolyn Turgeon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author), Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) 4.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faerie Magazine, Autumn 2017 #40: The Practical Magic Issue by Carolyn Turgeon (Goodreads Author) (Editor-in-Chief), Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author), Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'
- All my old loves will be returned to me”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story

tags: age, beauty, cinderella, fairy-tale, french, godmother, hope, love

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“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

tags: fantasy-fiction

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“It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

tags: fairy-tale, fantasy-fiction

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