Publisher's Synopsis
æI donÆt see why I should be Beekeeper, Owen thought, just because Crew is away from school with mumps and IÆm the youngest Singing Boy in the school.Æ One of the traditional duties of the Beekeeper is to sing a solo in the cathedral, and Owen hates that prospect, so he persuades Iddingley to take his place. When Owen, Trevithic and Dubnet go exploring one of the cathedral towers without permission, Owen finds something which makes him change his mind, and solves a mystery which has been baffling people for hundreds of yearsà æElusive, elliptical, uncompromising . . . I read and re-read it. I wished I had written it, I began to feel almost that I could write it. It showed me the way I must go.Æ Jan Mark æA brilliant and exciting book.Æ Observer æIt is pure joyàÆ Sunday Times
