description: "A master story-teller" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "Hill is rare among contemporary writers" THE TIMES A young prep school boy visiting his aunt's country house, finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness... A young country girl fights against becoming a down-trodden domestic skivvy like her dead mother, while another girl reaches a delicate understanding with an elderly blind man as they walk along the beach... on another beach, a gang of boys plan the most wicked deed they can conceive of...
language: English
title: The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read
titlecomplete: The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read
genres: Contemporary, Fiction, British Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 261
publisher: Soundings Audio Books