The Apple Orchard, by Susan Wiggs, is vintage Wiggs at her finest. Regardless of whatever atmosphere that she so passionately creates, readers find themselves wanting to pick and move their entire lives into her story’s settings.
In this case, readers will want to transport themselves to tiny Archangel, California, a tiny town in the Sonoma Valley full of interesting characters, delicious food, exquisite wine and characters who secretly possess twisting and turning stories dating back to WWII.
Tess, a fully-committed city girl living in San Francisco is on the edge of making it big with Sheffields, a boutique auction house. Her life’s passion is finding treasure and then flitting off to the next place to see what’s at the end of the rainbow.
But life throws her a curvy little rainbow when an elderly man falls off a ladder, goes into a coma and leaves Tess half of his estate; an estate that includes a huge apple orchard that has supported the family tribe and is later found out to be in foreclosure. Tess meets a sister she didn’t know that she had, and finds what she’s really looking for in sleepy little, charming little, charismatic little Archangel.
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