On beautiful failure and the magic of second chances.
Marie never thought she would be sitting at her parents' kitchen table again in her mid-thirties, running a dog daycare centre in the village where she grew up. And yet that is her life now. In the middle of summer, Magisch is back too, Magisch, who slept in her bed for years, with whom she was the local punk couple – whom she hasn't seen since they broke up, but admittedly always missed. But then there's Andi, her brother and staunch right-winger – and for Marie, the time has come to finally stand up to him. In her unmistakable tone, Annika Büsing tells of an enduring love and the rift that runs through a family.
‘This author really knows how to tell a story.’ Jens Dirksen, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
"a truly magnificent novel" and "perhaps the most beautiful and authentic love story of this autumn’s book season" - kultur.newsletter, Carsten Schrader
"It is a novel about home. It is an anti-novel about home. It is a phenomenally good novel about home." - Hamburger Morgenpost
"brilliant dialogue and a moving family story" - ARD MoMa, Thomas Schindler
"In the most unsentimental terms, one could describe 'Magisch' as one of the most beautiful romance novels one has read in a long time" - SRF, Bernadette Conrad
"No one writes with as much energy as Annika Büsing!" - Creme Guides, Felix Palent
"one of the most enchanting, and perhaps the most genuinely mature, love stories I have ever read" - rbb radioeins, Felix Palent
