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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 ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and her book ought to become a key text of this bright moment in our history of nature writing' Observer 'Written finely and insightful' Guardian A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers of H is For Hawk and The Outrun. Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary addresses – disconnected, stressed. Struggling to settle into her latest job and home in Oxford, she realises she needs to effect a change if she's to create a meaningful life for herself, one that can accommodate comfort and labour and love. Then friends give her the gift of a colony of honeybees – according to folklore, bees freely given bring luck – and Helen embarks on her first full year of beekeeping. But what does it mean to 'keep' wild creatures? In learning about

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Author

Helen Jukes; Jane Collingwood

Publisher

Scribner UK

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781471167744

Category

science

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4.5 / 5 (396 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14