A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

By Helen Jukes,

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'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK
'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which movedā€¦

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I loved this book because it brought me back to the time I started beekeeping on the roof of the San Francisco Chronicle. Like Jukes, I was enthralled, enchanted, and curious. And 100 percent totally freaked out. Could I keep these creatures alive? What if they swarmed to a nearby office building or restaurant?

Jukes does her homework before being gifted a colony of honey bees. Through many trips to the library, she shares the ancient history, weird science, and mythological admiration humankind has always had for Beekind. Jukes is going through a difficult time in her life when sheā€¦

I love this book. It is an intimate, touching, delightful account of a young womanā€™s true-life search for love and fulfillment through a year of keeping bees.

We follow her journey as she brings a hive and bees into her English garden and accompany her on every twist and turn of her beekeeping experience, and the personal life that is entwined within it. Helenā€™s book is a love story as much about humans as it is about bees.

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