The book makes the reader so aware of how one person can make such a difference in a child’s life. 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. Her writing is included in the book, Best Newspaper Writing 2005, published by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Two great books in one great collection From 1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery and award-winning journalist Meredith May, two stories of. Virtually abandoned by her parents, Meredith is taken under the wing of her Grandpa. Part family story, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is a rich and lyrical memoir of a girl who journeyed into the hive-and found herself.The Honey Bus Meredith May In a few wordsĪn engaging and moving memoir. The bees became a guiding force in May's life, teaching her about family and survival, and it was during this pivotal time in May's childhood that she learned to take care of herself. May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality.

Everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May. 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. The Honey Bus: A Girl Raised by Bees is a memoir about a girls journey into the heart of a. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. Buy The Honey Bus by Meredith May for 33.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved By Bees Meredith May. An unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.

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