ABOUT THE BOOK

Augusta Olsen is a woman with passions and desires who has inherited three things from her mother: a wayward heart, a talent for beekeeping and the very dubious gift of second sight. These are legacies just too big for a young wife who finds life on a remote farm with shy, awkward Karl and his detestable father almost unbearable. But farming husbands and wives are married to their land as much as to each other. From that kind of necessity, a different sort of love is made - and remade.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz grew up in rural British Columbia. She has published a collection of short stories and her first novel, 'The Cure for Death by Lightning', became an instant bestseller in Britain and Canada. It won many prizes including a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for the Canadian Giller Prize in 1997. Gail Anderson-Dargatz lives on a farm in Alberta with her husband.