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A young schoolboy visiting his aunt's country home finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness.

The boy who taught the beekeeper to read. A young schoolboy visiting his aunt's country home finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness. A young country girl fights against becoming a downtrodden domestic skivvy like her dead mother, while another young girl reaches a delicate understanding with an elderly blind man as they walk along the beach together. On another beach a more sinister plot unfolds as a gang of boys plans a most wicked deed.

The boy,’ Clara said. They would not go to the beach. They tried to picture it, wherever it was with the boy, but the place was dark and quite undeterminable, they failed entirely and so almost at once they slept, exhausted by the strain of imagining, like mediums drained by the demands of the other world. None of it had been referred to again. Things were just as they had been, there were no more surprises and by this they were quite unsurprised.

The books were not ordinary books, they were gramophone recordings that came in flat, heavy boxes, tied with leather straps, and were exchanged for a new set every other week

The books were not ordinary books, they were gramophone recordings that came in flat, heavy boxes, tied with leather straps, and were exchanged for a new set every other week. He listened to them for an hour each evening, and sometimes the child listened with him, to The History of the Second World War by Winston Churchill, and the diaries of statesmen, and the lives of kings. Travellers read of journeys and philosophers asked the questions which she herself asked constantly. What is the world? What is real? Who am I? But their answers were intricate, incomprehensible.

The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill published in 2003 by Chatto & Windus (hardback) and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books. It contains nine stories :-.

A young school boy visiting his aunt's country house finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read, so that it seems nothing can ever intrude upon their closeness. On another beach a more sinister plot unfolds as a gang of boys plans the most wicked deed.

THE BOY WHO Having just finished one book of short stories, I didn't expect to follow it with another, but I. .The most touching of the tales is the title story. I enjoyed this and thought it a pretty realistic tale of growing up and moving on as a child

They are good, but all are concerned with loss in some form. I enjoyed this and thought it a pretty realistic tale of growing up and moving on as a child. It's all a bit too mannered and dry after a while.

The boy followed, silent, watching, his green-white body a small ghost behind the voluminous billowing beekeeper. The boy had pulled a stool up to the workbench under the dirty window. The two books and two pencils were set between them

The boy followed, silent, watching, his green-white body a small ghost behind the voluminous billowing beekeeper. What will happen now?’ ‘They’ll settle down. The two books and two pencils were set between them. Panic flustered the man. Words bubbled up, excuses, fears, but remained foaming in his mouth. Thunder rumbled in the distance. The boy opened the books. He began to breathe too quickly.

We’ll shoot the crucifix. They froze as stiff as the plaster saints then and the silence was terrible, as they pictured it in their minds. But he had scared himself as well, they knew that, with the enormity of the idea and that it had come out of him. The tide was out and there was the usual mean wind

Mart May, the illiterate beekeeper of the title, who befriends a lonely visiting boy one summer and is then left high and .

Mart May, the illiterate beekeeper of the title, who befriends a lonely visiting boy one summer and is then left high and dry after the boy has started teaching him to read, is a fine study of frustration, betrayal and fear of change. As in many of her fictions, it's hard to see who's in control in this story. The pleasure to be had from this small book of subdued stories lies in their carefulness: memories are exactly sustained, small gifts are valued, little words are listened to, advice - whether wanted or unwanted - settles in the mind: "The child's head was crammed with their sayings, like buttons packed into a box.