The Beekeeper's Promise cover art

The Beekeeper's Promise

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Beekeeper's Promise

By: Fiona Valpy
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Try Premium Plus free

Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $28.99

Buy Now for $28.99

About this listen

An RNA Romantic Novel Award nominee.

Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman’s story, a story that could change the course of her summer - and her life.

In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Château Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first time, daring to hope that a happy future awaits. But France’s eastern border is darkening under the clouds of war, and history has other plans for Eliane...

When she is separated from Mathieu in the chaos of German occupation, Eliane makes the dangerous decision to join the Resistance and fight for France’s liberty. But with no end to the war in sight, her loyalty to Mathieu is severely tested.

From the bestselling author of Sea of Memories comes the story of two remarkable women, generations apart, who must use adversity to their advantage and find the resilience deep within.

©2018 Fiona Valpy (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. 20th Century Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction War Heartfelt
All stars
Most relevant  
Fiona does not disappoint in this timeless tale which takes us back to pre, during and post WW2. She adds icing on this delicious pie in the form of Abbey.
I don’t want to give anything away.
The narrator is superb - well done.
Read this and then listen to the book a promise you’ll leave it’s pages as in love as I!

The journey of souls lies between these pages!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
this series of books are exactly what I needed well driving around town this book kept me wanting Mall

beeing humble

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
it is the first audio book I heard. I really liked it, so much that I listened to it in one sitting.
at the beginning it was a bit confusing as the story jumped back and forth between the years. But I loved the story, the history.

the beekeepers promise

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It is rare that I do not finish a book. This one was ruined by the narrator. When she was narrating with an English accent, she was perfectly good but when she read or tried to read with a French accent, she was terrible. At times she sounded as if she was Welsh, other times as if she was parodying a Pakistani accent and sometimes even German. Worse, when reading French text (as opposed to English with a French accent), it was obvious that she did not know how to even pronounce the words and sometimes got genders mixed up. All in all, a good book massacred and ruined.

The narrator ruined this for me.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.