Book review - A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes

Holly Walker reviews A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes, published by Simon & Schuster.

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is a memoir of a year of urban beekeeping by young British writer Helen Jukes. Gentle and meditative, Jukes reflects on the relationship between humans and nature and what it means to "keep" another creature, or indeed, colony. A gorgeously-produced hardback book, this will appeal to nature-lovers and anglophiles, though perhaps not fans of more confessional memoir; Jukes holds herself back in this regard.