When her mother dies, Augusta is bereft and without direction until she marries her first suitor, Karl, the shy son of a detestable old farmer. As a young woman with an eye for beauty who longs for affection, she finds life on their remote, rustic farm almost unbearable. When the local reverend offers the occasional afternoon relief from her cloistered existence, she accepts; when another man from the town shows interest, she feels herself drawn toward him. Eventually, she and Karl and their young daughter, Joy, move onto a farm of their own, and Augusta looks for new ways to assert her independence. It is not until she resurrects her mother's beekeeping equipment that sweet possibilities become evident. And as the strands of her life unexpectedly twist together, the indulgences of youth and the many delights and exasperations of old age are revealed.

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I was frustrated by this book. I kept thinking I should be enjoying it, but it just didn't quite click with me. It certainly had all the elements I'd normally like in a book, but somehow they just didn't come together in a satisfying way. It was ok, but not great like I felt like it should be. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it.

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Picked up at the New Zealand BookCrossing Convention - thanks!

As I am often referred to as Bee I felt an instant connection with this book and was even happier when reading the back cover that it seemed like a good read. I look forward to it!

An enjoyable enough book but it didn't grab me the way I thought it would. Nothing outstandingly wrong with it I guess, but it nothing outstandingly fantastic either. Just a little bland.