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Gail Anderson-Dargatz gives readers a remarkable woman in Augusta Olsen, fit to stand beside Margaret Laurence's Hagar Shipley and Jane Urquhart's Esther O'Malley Robertson, however Augusta also possesses an attitude, a wicked funny bone, and the dubious gift of second sight . . .
Saturated with bee lore, full of rich domestic detail, and wondrous imagery culled from rural kitchens and gardens, A Recipe for Bees shines insight into ageing, family, friendship, as well as the heart, life, death, and resurrection of an extraordinary marriage.
"Gail Anderson-Dargatz has something that no amount of craft can give a writer: She is hopelessly in love with and attentive to her subject, the physical world and all its gifts." -- The Globe and Mail