The Gypsy Chronicles: Alison Mackie's The Gypsy Chronicles (Paperback)

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After a long day editing articles on consciousness and quantum mechanics, The Gypsy Chronicles, is a delightful tonic. Lighthearted and yet uplifting, this little gem of a book does much to soothe the spirit and assure us that life is divine indeed. The tale of gypsy matchmaker Gitana and her enchanted matrimonial bed-making husband, Tzigany de Torres, is saucy and kind, wise and exotic. Filled with genuine joie de vivre, it makes you divinely happy to be alive. The Gypsy Chronicles makes your soul want to tap dance! A delightful bit of fiction that will enchant the spirit and warm your heart. --Cate Montana; The Global Intelligencer

I could not help but compare it with Amélie of Montmartre There is throughout a great amount of stylization, playfulness and surprising twists in the plot which will bring a smile and giggle. --Ana Leskova; Czech Daily

The romantic and exotic tone of The Gypsy Chronicles is strictly fabulous. And the notion of charmed matrimonial beds? No reader could ask for more to spark so many levels of the imagination. Alison Mackie has created a mystical world, beautiful in its undertaking, that will lure even the most cynical souls to seek the mysterious ways of deep love and Gypsy magic. --Meredith Blevins; The Hummingbird Wizard, Red Hot Empress, The Vanished Priestess,

Product Description

Illustrated Novel: Upon each Matrimonial bed Tzigany de Torres makes, he bestows a potent charm, one which guarantees a lifetime of passionate love within the marriage. And with his matchmaker wife, Gitana, they are in the business of making love happen. However, if you were to assume there is sex in this book you would be mistaken. There is only LOVE. Or should I say, quietly, the making of love...

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Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Ashton Court Press, Inc.; 1st edition (March 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615134653
• ISBN-13: 978-0615134659
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #111,009 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An enchanting book, May 5, 2007

By	B. N. Attias - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really love Alison Mackie's The Gypsy Chronicles. The charming tales are told by Gitana, a Spanish gypsy woman whose husband is a maker of "charmed matrimonial beds" for which he has become quite renowned. The stories are told with such charm and a wonderful sense of humour. Peppered throughout the book are lovely quotes from the poems of Rumi and Lorca, and evocative photos and nostalgic postcards add character to this enchanting book.

The way I felt reading this book was that I myself was a Spanish gypsy and these characters were my friends and relatives. The writer has a gift for making you love her characters who dance off the page in all their passionate splendour.

I too am looking forward to the next book by Alison Mackie.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "This is a Novel which No person should pass up; here's why!", April 27, 2007

By	Hanna L. Stine "~Stine69~" (Tampa, FL.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"This is a Novel which No person should pass up; here's why!"

"When I first looked at the author's site, I was thinking: 'Oh great, here's another novel about what someone thinks sex, love and romance are about in the great 21st century....blah, blah, blah!" Yet even the greatest of sceptics, which I am, will have that one opportunity, in life, to be proven wrong,...and pleasantly, I was. I read blogs, written by the author, herself and was greatly surprised by what the premise of her book was all about. This intrigued me to purchase the novel and read more about what the hype on her sites was about. The more I read, the more convinced I became about the theme of this novel was not about just sex, love or romance...it was all about the gift of "Unconditional Love."
{One layman example of this are two people going hand and hand, not knowing what the future may bring them but having faith enough to trust everything will turn out for the best.}
The kind of love we all dream about all of ours lives; whether you're a woman or a man. About how we should treat each other, as human beings. How deep down, we as people need to give each other reverence, that we all deserve. All of her characters, even if they are gypsies, go though the motions of daily life which include birth, love, marriage, sexual passion (of course; what human being doesn't), growth and changes galore.
In a time and age, which we all live in, where 'Hook-ups/Hanging with/Shacking up' are common place and Marriage/Long-term relationships are frowned upon...this Novel is not just a 'romance book' on how things just use to be but another way all of us should look at the way we live our lives and what, maybe one day in the near future, all of us should return to bring back some sanity into this insane world of ours.
Honestly; I can not wait to see the next installment of this wonderful author's novel to see where all of her characters are going towards. All I can say is if you don't purchase 'The Gypsy Chronicles' for all of this and more, at least just get it so you will see all of the wonderfulness, of all the different stories which makes this book one of the most unique novels around,...in fact, the only one available, in a sea of 'garbage-romance' novels which are being sold in the public, today.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful escape into a magical world, August 23, 2007

By	Film Fan "djusticebell" (Houston, Tx. United States) - See all my reviews

I really enjoyed this book from beginning to end. Alison Mackie transports you into another world...Andalusía....the world of the gitanos (gypsies)...the world of flamenco....the world of love and romance....The book is rather unique in that it uses uses a number of devices to capture your imagination: the author's delightful folktales, the duende of famed Spanish poet/playwright Federico García Lorca, the poetry of Coleman Barks, antique Spanish postcards, photography, etc. The reader never knows what surprise awaits on the next page; I've never read anything quite like it....a very creative endeavor on the author's part. It's a wonderful escape from the mundane, and I highly recommend it.