The Beekeeper's Ball

by Susan Wiggs

Overview

Escape to beautiful Bella Vista for a heartwarming story of sisters, new beginnings and hidden family secrets.

Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef from sun-drenched Sonoma, California, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school. Bella Vista’s rambling hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel’s project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past.

As Isabel eagerly prepares Bella Vista for its first major event, she never expected her perfectly ordered plans to go awry. But that’s exactly what happens when war-torn journalist Cormac O’Neill arrives to write her grandfather’s biography, including his role in the Danish Resistance during WWII. For Isabel, finding new love just might mean confronting some buried secrets of her own.

Master storyteller Susan Wiggs expertly crafts a tale of love, sacrifice and the unbreakable bonds of family—a story that will capture hearts from start to finish.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780778331728
Publisher:	MIRA Books
Publication date:	03/30/2021
Series:	The Bella Vista Chronicles , #2
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	524,146
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 5.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Susan Wiggs's life is all about family, friends, and fiction. She lives on an island in Puget Sound, and commutes to her writers' group in a motorboat. She is an international bestselling author, and her books have appeared in the #1 spot on the NYT bestseller list. The Apple Orchard has been made into a film, with others in production. Susan loves hiking, skiing, and surfing, but her favorite sport is reading a book.

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended." -Library Journal

"Wiggs' carefully detailed plotlines, one contemporary and one historical, with their candid look at relationships and their long-term effects, are sure to captivate readers." -Booklist, starred review

"A dazzling intergenerational tale."
-Publishers Weekly

"A satisfying, engaging read."
-Kirkus Reviews

"This brilliant and epic family drama...fills the senses...courtesy of Wiggs's amazing narrative and supreme skill as a writer."
-RT Book Reviews on The Apple Orchard, Top Pick!

"This is classic Wiggs, with its emphasis on the strength of family and friends, and a landscape integral to the plot."
-Publishers Weekly on The Apple Orchard

"Wiggs tells a layered, powerful story of love, loss, hope and redemption."
-Kirkus Reviews on The Apple Orchard, starred review

"A tale with universal appeal."
-Booklist on The Apple Orchard

From the Publisher

In the second book of the Bella Vista chronicles, narrator Christina Traister invites listeners in with her soft, slightly husky voice and her expertly portrayed accents for the various German, Danish, and American characters. In this lovely and inspiring story, beautiful Isabel Johansen is in the process of opening a cooking school in a rambling, mission-style hacienda in Sonoma, California. There she meets handsome, determined author Cormac O'Neill, who has come to write the story of Isabel's grandfather, a hero of the Danish Underground who helped save Jews during WWII. Traister's subtle inflections and natural tonal changes quietly appeal, providing near perfect portrayals of Isabel and Cormac and the characters in the flashbacks to WWII. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2014 - AudioFile

In the second book of the Bella Vista chronicles, narrator Christina Traister invites listeners in with her soft, slightly husky voice and her expertly portrayed accents for the various German, Danish, and American characters. In this lovely and inspiring story, beautiful Isabel Johansen is in the process of opening a cooking school in a rambling, mission-style hacienda in Sonoma, California. There she meets handsome, determined author Cormac O'Neill, who has come to write the story of Isabel's grandfather, a hero of the Danish Underground who helped save Jews during WWII. Traister's subtle inflections and natural tonal changes quietly appeal, providing near perfect portrayals of Isabel and Cormac and the characters in the flashbacks to WWII. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2014 - AudioFile