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 a 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 her closet 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 luch and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey's clandestine closet is the safest place to cradh. In return she's going to change Josey's life--because, clearly, it is ot the closet of a happy woman. With Della Lee's tough love, Josey is soon forgoing pecan rolls and caramels, tapping into her startlingly keen feminine instincts, and finding her narrow existence quickly expanding.
Before long, Josey bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who makes the best sandwiches in town, is hounded by books that inexplicabley appear whenever she needs them, and --most amazing of all--has a close connection to Josey's longtime crush.
Aa little by little Josey dares to step outside herself, she discovers a workd where the color red has astonishing power, passion can make eggs fry in their cartons, and romance can blossom at any time--even for her. It seems that Della Lee's work is done, and it's time for her to move on. But the truth about where she's going, why she showed up in the first place--and what Chloe has to do with it all--is about to add one more unexpected chapter to Josey's fast-changing life.
The characters are well drawn, the sprinkling of magic just right and the story wonderful.
i always love Sarah Addison Allen's books. They leave me with a smile.
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