Yerba Buena

Yerba Buena is a love story about two women finding their way in the world, set in Los Angeles and featuring vivid detail and a sensory feast. It is balanced, fragrant, and masterfully crafted, as well as decadent and spare.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 25 May 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

A Love Story Like No Other


Gay Times


The book is a sensory feast, teeming with vivid detail: the smells of rain-soaked dirt and magnolia blossoms, the flavors of blistered corn and caramelized orange peel, the chill of a walk-in refrigerator.


New York Times


Yerba Buena is at turns decadent and spare, intimate and elusive, as balanced, fragrant, and masterfully crafted as a fine cocktail in the hands of someone mysterious and beautiful. This book is a precious thing. - Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop


When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her.


Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.


When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, will pull them apart again and again.


At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story about two women finding their way in the world.

Weight: 212g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399701808