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An inspiring, up-close portrait of beekeeping--a year of living dangerously--observing and capturing the wondrous, complex ecosystem of honeybees and their hive, and the emotional, spiritual transformation that changed the way the author sees, and is in, the world.The critics embrace Helen Jukes's A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: * "As strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it." --Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk * "Beautifully written and timely." --Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandHelen Jukes is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected and trapped by her office job, when the book opens. She is struggling to settle into a new life in her recently purchased house in Oxford with its own small yard.