It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've finished it - a rare treasure - and you don't have to be a bee lover to be deeply moved by May’s wonderful story. 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. The book makes the reader so aware of how one person can make such a difference in a child’s life.”'Sweet, tender, and with the kind of clear-eyed honesty that comes from a compassionate soul.” - Sunday Express Her lovely book is part-memoir and part nature story. Meredith May is now an award-winning journalist. As they harvested honey together in the dilapidated old bus on the back of his property, her gentle Grandpa taught her life lessons through the wisdom of bees. Meredith’s Grandpa, while eccentric, was a kind and wise figure and he involved Meredith in his life as a bee-keeper where she accompanied him as he drove around Big Sur in California tending his beehives. Her depressive and emotionally distant mother handed Meredith and her younger brother over to her parents to raise and virtually took no further part in their upbringing. When her parents divorced, Meredith was only five. Those who enjoy memoirs and especially coming-of-age, true stories.

Her story is one of unconditional love and the healing power of nature. Virtually abandoned by her parents, Meredith is taken under the wing of her Grandpa. The Honey Bus Meredith May In a few wordsĪn engaging and moving memoir.

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