Flappers & Fiction

With her grandmother too ill to make lace and the cupboard frightfully bare, young Dorel fears the wolf is finally at the door. Her only possession is a single beehive left by the old schoolmaster, but a neighbor has already dismissed the colony as worthless and the honey as unsellable. Desperate, she confides her troubles to the buzzing garden—unaware that a knowledgeable English stranger is listening from beyond the hedge. A charming tale of how a misunderstood legacy and a bit of kindness can change a life.