From the book jacket: Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she’s 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 mother’s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night…Until she finds her closet harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tenderhearted woman who is one part nemesis – and two parts fairy godmother…
The Sugar Queen is Sarah Addison Allen’s second novel – following the bestselling Garden Spells. I found it to be as enchanting as the first. I hesitate to explain the plot as I think it takes away from the wonderful experience of reading the book for the first time. I borrowed it from the library but will probably buy when the trade pb is published. I was happy to read that the author’s next book will be out in 2009. I’m a fan.
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