A Recipe for Bees

Not a cookbook. Augusta Olson has the gift of second sight. As a teenager growing up on a rural farm she foresaw that her mother would die in childbirth. She could not predict that her own marriage to a taciturn sheepfarmer would prove to be so confining (or her father-in-law so very ornery), but Augusta is feisty and unbowed, finding independence in work, friendships and motherhood, and a love affair that will reverberate throughout her life. But it when she takes up her mother's craft of beekeeping that her life—and even her marriage—is unexpectedly transformed.