The sugar queen

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2008 by Center Point Pub..

ISBN:
978-1-60285-229-7
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OCLC Number:
212376203

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In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.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 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 …

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Subjects

  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Food habits -- Fiction
  • Life change events -- Fiction
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
  • Female friendship -- Fiction
  • Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
  • Adult children living with parents -- Fiction
  • Large type books
  • North Carolina -- Fiction