Telling the bees
By: Peggy Hesketh
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781851689873; 9781780742182
Subjects: Older men; Fiction; Loss (Psychology); Bee culture
Description: Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, still residing in the house in which he was born, Albert makes a modest living as a beekeeper, just has his father and his father's father had done before him. Deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives, he knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of the eucalyptus; and that bees are at their gentlest in a swarm. But Albert is less versed in the ways of people, especially his beautiful, courageous, and secretive friend Claire. - from cover p.[2].