The Music of Bees: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Eileen Garvin

In this novel, the author tells a story of two girls brought to their knees by the devastation of war. They are different, one British and privileged, the other French and poor. Set in London during World War II and Paris during WWII, we accompany these girls on their journey through love, loss, friendship and dreams.

Bloggers and librarians, those who work in hospitals, and beekeepers will find much to love in this beautiful novel, a historical novel that honors the life of bees. The protagonist is Alice Clare, an American living in France as a writer during World War II. Even though she's never been a part of the country's heated political climate, she yearns for something more than her life as a wealthy woman and her indulgent husband. She knows that she must change her life or risk losing everything--her family estate and the respect of friends and neighbors.

Eileen Garvin is an American author with three novels in her name. The Music of Bees is a forthcoming novel to be released by Riverhead Books in 2020. It will follow the story of a woman named Celestine, working as a beekeeper and struggling with age, who falls in love with an apiarist from Japan.

[This is the novel that was chosen for the audiobook download.] The book begins with an elderly woman at a nursing home who is listening to an audiobook of "The Music of Bees" narrated by Thérèse Plummer.

Three generations of women are brought together by the love they bear for music and their connection to the bees that pollinate their gardens.