The Language of Bees

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How can we have hope in a world that is dying? Global problems like climate change feel terrifying, too big for one person totake on. But what if, instead of being overwhelmed, we were to look for hope inthe smallest details? A dying moth falling against a kiss. A distracted lover' s hippressing into a table. A single carder bee, dying on the driveway of a suburbangarden in Wales. With a forensic eye, Howells takes us on a journey through ordinary human livesand the extraordinary natural world we are in danger of losing. The carder beecarries the story of a colony, a species, and, ultimately, the fate of all life on earth. The mermaid weaves an almost beautiful tale of a tragic miscarriage. The magpiewrites yearning letters to her lost lover. The brilliant kingfisher flits through themind of a woman with dementia. Through each exacting portrait, we begin tounderstand something special, a language of bees, and discover for ourselves howintimately we are all connected and what the natural world is trying to tell us.