15 Beach Reads That Distracted Moms Might Actually Be Able to Finish

In Fiona Valpy The Beekeeper's Promise, she explores the parallel lives of two women living generations apart — heartbroken Abi Howes, who takes a summer job at the Château Bellevue hoping for an escape, and Eliane Martin, who once tended beehives in the garden of the château in 1938 and became separated from her first love in the chaos of German occupation.