SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDWhat would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours? For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, their relationship kept hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana’s company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desperate for an outlet, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca…'Utterly gripping' RODDY DOYLE'A triumph – crackling with psychological and sexual ambiguity' JULIE MYERSON, OBSERVER'This book is just sublime… I loved every page’ CAITRIONA BALFE'Unmissable ... Incredible' STYLIST‘Amazing ... I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana’s fragmented narrative' EMMA HEALEY'Dark, riveting, powerful' ELIZABETH DAY
CONTRIBUTORS: Sarah Crossan
EAN: 9781526619525
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 206 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Women, POETRY / Women Authors
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Amazing ... I absolutely love the form, which breathes new life into a familiar story making it both more elegant and more brutal. I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana’s fragmented narrative, Excellent ... An eviscerating account of modern marriage, Sex, work and motherhood all come under the microscope in this vivid portrait of the agony of being "the other woman", This lyrical account of an adulterous affair and its brutal aftermath is all the more effective and affecting for the spare, sparse style and I expect it to win as many awards as Sarah Crossan’s YA fiction has done, I absolutely gobbled it up: dark, riveting, powerful ... Delivers on a whole new level
Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge. Crossan is the current Laureate na nÓg (Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate). Here is the Beehive is her first novel for adults. sarahcrossan.com @SarahCrossan
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