CLARE FLYNN

I’m delighted to welcome Jean Gill onto the blog today.     Jean is a friend and the author of books across multiple genres from poetry...

This morning I was rereading a short story from the Discovering Diamonds: Stories from a Song  series — a collection of pieces inspired by music and written by authors from around the world. The story was The Hunter written by the award‑winning novelist Jean Gill, who lives in France and, among many other things, keeps bees. I really enjoyed reading her fantasy tale of a brave woman scaling a cliff on which her father had perished the previous year, in order to harvest the w