It beautifully illustrates how nature - even honeybees - can teach and heal us, if only we open our minds and hearts. ‘A book of revelations, clear-eyed, eloquent and so touching… a wise, touching, beautiful reminiscence - and a cry for help for nature’s wonder workers.’ SAGA Magazine ‘Filled with hope, grace, beauty, and wisdom, this book is like warm honey in the sunshine. The Honey Bus is all these things and more - so if you’ve ever been a lonely child, or want the world to become a kinder place, here is your book.” - Laline Paull, author of The Bees An innocent child’s hard won journey to adulthood - clear eyed, often very funny, and agonisingly compassionate. ”'The wounded feminine, the missing masculine, healed by a relationship with honeybees. Part memoir, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.”'Sweet, tender, and with the kind of clear-eyed honesty that comes from a compassionate soul.” - Sunday Express The bees became a guiding force in May’s life, teaching her about family and community, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.
Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom.
May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees.
She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee.
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