The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485705
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read

and Other Stories

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1 Aug 2011
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15 Jun 2004
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'This is vintage Susan Hill, both in the little worlds she evokes and in her understanding of the relationships between children and adults' Books of the Year, Spectator

A young school boy visiting his aunt's country house finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness. A young country girl fights against becoming a downtrodden domestic skivvy like her dead mother, while another young girl reaches a delicate understanding with an elderly blind man as they walk along the beach together. On another beach a more sinister plot unfolds as a gang of boys plans the most wicked deed.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485705
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the author

Susan Hill

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

www.susanhill.org.uk

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Praise for The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read

Hill can evoke a setting, convey the essence of a situation and let one see into the inmost hearts of her character in a paragraph or even a single sentence

Francis King, Spectator

Hill's sentences speak eloquently...the pleasure to be had from [these] stories lies in their carefulness: memories are exactly sustained, small gifts are valued, little words are listened to

Guardian

Hill's stories evoke place, situation and complex emotions with enviable economy... Masterly

Daily Mail

Simple and mesmeric prose

Observer

These very strange, beautiful tales demonstrate a relentless capacity to surprise... The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read introduces many individual people who will continue to stare back at the reader long after the book is closed

Times Literary Supplement
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