The Sugar Queen

The Sugar Queen

by SarahAddisonAllen (Author)

Synopsis

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, shes a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mothers house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night Until she finds it harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tenderhearted woman who is one part nemesis and two parts fairy godmother. Fleeing a life of bad luck and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey's clandestine closet is the safest place to crash. In return shes going to change Josey's life because, clearly, it is not the closet of a happy woman. With Della Lee's tough love, Josey is soon forgoing pecan rolls and caramels, tapping into her startlingly keen feminine instincts, and finding her narrow existence quickly expanding. But her life is changing faster than she knows...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 07 Aug 2008

ISBN 10: 0340935758
ISBN 13: 9780340935750

Media Reviews
'Bewitching ... a candy jar of magical characters and mystical adventures ... Words such as sweet , charming and delightful are weak accolades for such a pleasurable book' -- Publishers Weekly 'It has sweetness and sorrow in equal measures: imagine Chocolat meets Practical Magic, but with a charm of its own.' -- New Books 20080729
Author Bio
Sarah Addison Allen is the product of a newspaper man and a former debutante who pierced her nose and dyed her hair red at the age of fifty. Taught the fine art of table place settings at an early age, she has never quite shaken off her inherited urge to rebel. She lives in the American South, where THE SUGAR QUEEN is set.