The Featherwood Beekeeper

Sometimes you just have to follow the bees...
Sometimes you have to follow the bees.

Hives are failing up and down the NSW coast – but not in Featherwood. Government scientist Natasha Yarrington is sent to find out why, and the trail leads her to an off-grid beekeeper whose colonies are not just surviving but thriving. Isaac Stevens came to Featherwood to disappear, but a man who holds the secret to healthy bees is difficult to walk away from. For Natasha, he turns out to be the most compelling mystery in Featherwood.

Natasha is swept into the warm heart of the town alongside eighteen-year-old Birdie Vaughn, who has followed a postmark all the way from Sydney in search of her long-lost brother, and the irrepressible Molly Rogan – newly married and navigating a late-in-life pregnancy – who has a gift for drawing strays into her orbit and holding a town together. As her relationships with the people of Featherwood grow, Natasha starts to wonder if she's stumbled onto something far more important than a scientific answer.

Set against the backdrop of rural NSW and a community still finding its feet after the last two years of flood and fire, The Featherwood Beekeeper is a story about second chances at love, found family and the courage it takes to let people in. With her trademark warmth, humour and deep love of the Australian landscape, Fiona McArthur reminds us that family can be built as much as born, and that the most important discoveries aren't always the ones you were looking for.