Honey from Sardinia
Cristina Caboni’s novel, "The Honey Daughters ", has been translated into 22 languages to date. Her stories combine sweetness, cheerfulness, the idyll, and family.
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Her novel, „La custode del miele e delle api”, has been translated into 22 languages to date. In English the book was published with the title “The Honey Daughters”. The book propelled the author onto all the bestseller lists because her stories combine sweetness, cheerfulness, the idyll, and family. With her elegant writing style, she immerses readers in past worlds. However, she says that the bees themselves are her passion and her true companions!
The author Cristina Caboni is a mother, wife and beekeeper. Here in Sardinia, where she lives with her family, she produces bitter honey from the flowers of the strawberry tree and sweet honey from the flowers of the citrus fruits, the asphodillum, the thistle, the thyme, the clover, the heather, and of course from the thousands of flowering plants of the Sardinian macchia, the so-called honey millefiori. Sardinia – one of the purest and most untouched spots on earth – is a paradise for bees, as they still live undisturbed, unlike in other regions. Sardinia is the land of the sea, the wind, the fairies and the giants.
In her book “The Honey Daughters”, Ms Caboni tells the story of Angelica, a young woman fleeing from her fears. The only place where she comes to rest is with her bees. Only through the honey does she manage to express her emotions. A woman named Margherita had been like a mother to Angelica during her childhood when she lived on a wind-swept island not far from Sardinia. She teaches Angelica everything she knows about bees.
Fragrances, stories, sensitivity. The sweetness of honey binds the stories that make life worth living. Cristina Caboni is an optimist and would be happy to share this side of authentic Sardinia with you – it is waiting for you in San Sperate, the village of millions of bees, just a few kilometres from the capital Cagliari.
(Text Giacomo Mameli)
The author Cristina Caboni is a mother, wife and beekeeper. Here in Sardinia, where she lives with her family, she produces bitter honey from the flowers of the strawberry tree and sweet honey from the flowers of the citrus fruits, the asphodillum, the thistle, the thyme, the clover, the heather, and of course from the thousands of flowering plants of the Sardinian macchia, the so-called honey millefiori. Sardinia – one of the purest and most untouched spots on earth – is a paradise for bees, as they still live undisturbed, unlike in other regions. Sardinia is the land of the sea, the wind, the fairies and the giants.
In her book “The Honey Daughters”, Ms Caboni tells the story of Angelica, a young woman fleeing from her fears. The only place where she comes to rest is with her bees. Only through the honey does she manage to express her emotions. A woman named Margherita had been like a mother to Angelica during her childhood when she lived on a wind-swept island not far from Sardinia. She teaches Angelica everything she knows about bees.
Fragrances, stories, sensitivity. The sweetness of honey binds the stories that make life worth living. Cristina Caboni is an optimist and would be happy to share this side of authentic Sardinia with you – it is waiting for you in San Sperate, the village of millions of bees, just a few kilometres from the capital Cagliari.
(Text Giacomo Mameli)