Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire #foliosociety

Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire #foliosocietyBooks can change lives. Magic books can change everything. In a tiny, miserable farm on the edge of the tiny, miserable village of East Grasby, Isabella Nagg is trying to get on with her equally tiny and miserable existence. Dividing her time between enduring her feckless husband, inadequately caring for the farm's strange collection of animals, cooking up 'scrunge', and crooning over her treasured pot of basil, Isabella can't help but think that

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