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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Romance 2.5 stars. I've unwittingly read yet another WWII novel. This one has 2 storylines - present day in California and WWII-era in Denmark. A friend had given it to me, so I read it without knowing much about the book. For what it is (a light, easy read), it wasn't bad. The development of the main character's relationship seemed uneven and silly. The book is obviously part of a series, and there were loose ends left open for the next book. There are two books in the Bella Vista Chronicles series. I liked the WW II background of the grandfather and the beginnings of the relationship between the two separated sisters more than I did the other threads of the storyline. Parts of the second book were very unbelievable for several reasons, not least the elephant in the room whiich is never explained in any way. Really! Isabela Johansen lives and works on her Grandfather Magnus' apple Orchard, Bella Vista. She is busy setting up a cooking school at the family estate, and is helping her sister Tess with plans for Tess's upcoming wedding. One of Isabel's projects, in homage to her late grandmother Eva, is to become a beekeeper. She has plans to use the honey in her cooking school. While trying to capture a swarm of bees, a wrier named Mac, interrupts her and gets stung. He has to get rushed to the local medical clinic. Mac had just arrived at Bella Vista, at Tess and Magnus's request. He will be writing the story of Magnus's life. Magnus had been with the Danish Underground during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in WW II. Through the interviews, Tess and Isabel find their family history is one of great courage, strength, sorrow, and happiness. Isabel learns much sbout herself and begins to find the story of the parents she never knew. This was a lovely engaging read. The author combines present day with the memories of life in a worn torn Denmark. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest...and family secrets that have long been buried. Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style 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. But Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. He's always been better at exposing the lives of others than showing his own closely guarded heart, but the pleasures of small-town life and the searing sensuality of Isabel's kitchen coax him into revealing a few truths of his own. The dreamy sweetness of summer is the perfect time of year for a grand family wedding and the enchanting Beekeeper's Ball, bringing emotions to a head in a story where the past and present collide to create an unexpected new future. From "one of the best observers of stories of the heart" (Salem Statesman-Journal), The Beekeeper's Ball is an exquisite and richly imagined novel of the secrets that keep us from finding our way, the ties binding us to family and home, and the indelible imprint love can make on the human heart. .No library descriptions found. |
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