A Country Year by Sue Hubbell

A Country Year by Sue Hubbell

When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age.

Sue Hubbell wrote eight novels, including A Country Year and A Book of Bees, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. She contributed to the New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other publications. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian, and Time, among others, and was a regular writer to the New York Times' Hers section.