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From three times winner of The Welsh Book of The Year award, a stunningly lyrical beautiful novel about a beekeeper and his daughter, told through eleven letters. From the multi award-winning author of Drift, winner of the Welsh Book of the Year. Extraordinary...this book will absolutely...
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From three times winner of The Welsh Book of The Year award, a stunningly lyrical beautiful novel about a beekeeper and his daughter, told through eleven letters.
From the multi award-winning author of Drift, winner of the Welsh Book of the Year.
Extraordinary...this book will absolutely tug at your soul. One to re-read and treasure....glorious, heart-breaking, yet ultimately full of hope. - Liz Hyder, author of The Twelve
A gentle and tender novel about the power of forgiveness and how humans might thrive when given the space to grow. Richly rewarding fiction. - Kirsty Capes, author of Careless and Girls
FROM THE WINNER OF THE WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD...
Hannah has lived at Berllan-Deg all her life, the rhythms of her day governed by the natural world. Her husband came to live at the orchard when they got married.
Tonight, she must prepare for his funeral. He was a writer and a beekeeper who came to understand the world through the language of bees. He has left Hannah eleven letters; the exact same number as there are frames in a beehive.
But on the morning of the funeral, Hannah's estranged sister arrives and soon they are joined by a stranger with secrets of her own. As the letters unfold, the world around Hannah begins to shift...
An assured, sensitively told tale - Marie Claire
A tender, lyrical story of love, loss and renewal - Woman's Own
Exquisite . . . This is one of those novels that you can devour in a day but lingers long in the memory - Buzz Magazine
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804992098
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 184g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Caryl herself - won six Welsh BAFTAS. Her other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. In 2023, she won the Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for her debut English novel Drift, making her the first writer ever to have won in both languages. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.
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