Sugar Wallace is a young woman whose closest companions are her bees. She now has a 6th generation queen in charge of her bees, descended from the queen owned by her grandfather way back in Charleston, South Carolina. A true southern girl, our Sugar. Sugar is estranged from her family for reasons that gradually reveal themselves, and has been for some years. Using a map of the US and her queen bee, every year she moves to a different place, makes life there, then moves on. Now she has landed herself in New York City. She finds a tiny apartment in a building with a few other tiny apartments. She sets her bees up on the small balcony and the magic begins.
First of all there is Theo. It is obvious from the first day they meet that they will end up together. So obvious it is not a spoiler. Then there are the other people in the apartment building who live closely together but are miles apart. Some are plain cranky but why? One is anorexic, desperately thin. Another has a balloon shop - odd - and a young child. How she makes that work I will never know. There is Nate, gifted chef but people adverse. And George, dear George who Sugar takes under her wing and gives him back a life. She has this knack does Sugar of realising good things for the people she meets in her travels around the country. And she does it again in New York. With the bees to help her. But what about Sugar - can she continue going through life running away once things get a little uncomfortable? There is so much going for her in New York, who wouldn't want to stay there and settle. But will she?
So it's light, it's fun, it's happy. Just what we need right now. Plus, I learnt a lot about bees. Buzz buzz.
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