Name: Here Is the Beehive
Rating: 3.547619047619047 (21 reviews)
ISBN: 9780316428583

Sarah Crossan

"First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Circus, August 2020"--Title page verso.

Here Is the Beehive

Amy Grieve

She’s done it again! Just wow I enjoyed this so much. I’ve been casually making my way through Sarah Crossan’s work over the last few years and I’ve enjoyed everything she has given me. 

Here is the Beehive tells the story of a woman who finds out that her secret lover of three years has died in an unexpected accident and must pick up the pieces of her grief as she comes to terms with this loss alone. 

Adultery is not something I tend to read because I find that sometimes authors try to justify it. This book does no such thing. Instead it tells the story of a woman grieving alone, struggling to make sense of her relationship with the man who was always giving her just enough to stay and always made her come back to him in the end. It was an emotional gut punch reading how Connor kept Ana on strings through their entire relationship while he tried to defame his own wife at home to placate Ana’s need to feel special. 

What I took from this book is that when it comes to adultery there are no winners, just victims, sadness and unresolved grief.

'One of our most original writers. Sarah has almost created an entirely new form of writing in her novels that is hers and hers alone' John Boyne it happened, again and again and again and again and again. Together apart. In love in aching. Tangled unravelling. Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach o Connor's wife Rebecca. Peeling away the layers of two overlapping marriages, Here is the Beehive is a devastating excavation of risk, obsession and loss.

Isabella Stocka

This book suprised me, because I wasn't prepared to be so beautifully written and intense. It was an easy read with a lot of different emotions which changed so fast through the pages.
It is a book, that gives you something to think, for sure. However, doesn't make right what has happened. On the other hand, who saya what wrong or right is.
Well, I definitely finished the book with mixed feelings.

Cynthia

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Megan O’Connod

'One of our most original writers. Sarah has almost created an entirely new form of writing in her novels that is hers and hers alone' John Boyne it happened, again and again and again and again and again. Together apart.In love in aching. Tangled unravelling.Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca. Peeling away the layers of two overlapping marriages, Here is the Beehive is a devastating excavation of risk, obsession and loss.

Here Is the Beehive

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