Under the Spell

Viola - a drowned girl still alive, lives in a world of wondrous imagination, as she yearns for the ocean that almost took her. Taken inland by her mother to a menagerie of family and its passions, into a house as mysterious as an old movie theater, filled to the limit with those living and unforgotten dead, the exhilarating landscape of quirky family strains her love for the ocean and her connection to her father who saved her. She "knows" secrets that could ruin her mother and hurt her father, but if you lose family, who are you? Praise for "Under The Spell" "Under the Spell" by Carol Lee Lorenzo has beckoned us into the world of Viola, a young child with the imagination and dream life of a unique and creative soul. "Under the Spell" is finely and delicately wrought, both delightful and heart wrenching. Readers will be intrigued and in wonder with every page." - Trudy Nan Boyce, 2017 Georgia Author of the Year, author of "Out of the Blues," "Old Bones" and "The Policeman's Daughter." "Under the Spell is exquisite and unsettling, the saga of a large and messy family--but really it is nine year old Viola's story, her voice, her journey, her child's place in the complex doings of the grown ups around her. Viola is wise and funny, wonderfully observant, a worthy witness, a survivor. She is a character I won't soon forget. As for Carol Lee Lorenzo, she manages, somehow, to infuse each and every page with her own, very special virtuosity. " - Alexandra Curry, author of "The Courtesan".