A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year Of Keeping Bees [signed]

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Hardcover - dust jacket Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be an inscription at the front.

Part nature writing, part memoir, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings chronicles one woman's transformative first year as a beekeeper in Oxford, England. Helen Jukes presents an intimate account of learning to tend a hive amid the chaos of modern urban life, weaving together the science of honeybee behaviour with deeply personal reflections on community, belonging, and attention. With elegant, unhurried prose, the narrative illustrates how caring for bees becomes an unexpected anchor — a way of slowing down and tuning into the natural world. Rich in wonder and quietly philosophical, this debut work argues that the rhythms of the hive offer a profound mirror for the human search for connection and purpose.