Strongly recommended for all sensitive souls with a penchant for reading. This is a poignant story about a young girl yearning for love and acceptance. A child who has lost her mother early in life and is filled with the fear that she alone was responsible for her mothers death. Through ’’Lily’’ the author weaves a moving yet funny tale, bordering on the eccentric. Sue Monk Kidd seems douee as if this is one of the many stories she has told, it comes as a surprise then that this should be a first novel.(I remember feeling the same on reading Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvis’s A Secret Song of Dusk...later on that)
Throughout the novel the author narrates the life of bees, like a twin story enfolding at the same time on another plane, at times entwining at times independent. A beautiful, warm, witty and eccentric tale about life, love and growing up.
May’s Honey Song: hint: replace ’’honey’’ with ’’love’’.. Place a beehve on my grave And let the honey soak through When I’m dead and gone that’s what I want from you The streets of Heaven are gold and sunny But I’ll stick with my Pot of Honey Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.