Book description
Something strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried
through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a
field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the local
ladies half to death. Things have never been the same since the
evacuee arrived and the Five Boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. It is as
if someone is out for revenge. The village has had a whole host of
visitors since: the Americans are down the road preparing for D-Day
and a deserter is hiding out in the woods. But it is the arrival of
the Bee King which makes the biggest impression. He is a law unto
himself, has his own strange rituals and the villagers fear that he is
beginning to exert the same charm over their boys as he does over his
bees. The second novel by the highly acclaimed author of The
Underground Man confirms Mick Jackson's originality and talent.
Mick Jackson is the prize winning author of the novels, The
Underground Man, Five Boys and The Widow's Tale. He also published, with
the illustrator David Roberts, two acclaimed curiosities, Ten Sorry
Tales and Bears of England.
