Why read A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings?

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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
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2 authors picked A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Meredith May

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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 she…

From Meredith's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

Luke Dixon

Author

I love this book. It is an intimate, touching, delightful account of a young woman’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. Helen’s book is a love story as much about humans as it is about bees.

From Luke's list on bees and beekeeping.