Here is the Beehive, Sarah Crossan
Here is the Beehive, Sarah Crossan
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Here is the Beehive

Author: Sarah Crossan

Narrator: Sarah Crossan

Unabridged: 3 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2020


Synopsis

A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret -- for fans of Sally Rooney, Sheila Heti, and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informing her that one of her clients has died. But nothing could have prepared Ana for the call from Rebecca Taylor, explaining in a strangely calm tone that her husband Connor was killed in an accident.
Ana had been having an affair with Connor for three years, keeping their love secret in hotel rooms, weekends away, and swiftly deleted text messages. Though consuming, they hide their love well, and nobody knows of their relationship except Mark, Connor's best friend.
Alone and undone, Ana seeks friendship with the person who she once thought of as her adversary and opposite, but who is now the only one who shares her pain -- Rebecca. As Ana becomes closer to her lover's widow, she is forced to reconcile painful truths about the affair, and the fickleness of love and desire.
Funny, frank, and strange, Sarah Crossan's moving novel is wholly original and deeply resonant.

About Sarah Crossan

Sarah Crossan is the author of One, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Bookseller's prize for young adult fiction and was named the Irish Children's Book of the Year. It was also named to the White Ravens list, was an Indie Next selection, and earned four starred reviews in the US. In 2018, Sarah Crossan was named Irish Children’s Laureate. Two other novels, The Weight of Water and Apple and Rain, were also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London, and New York, and now lives in Sussex. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University. Since completing a master's in creative writing, she has been working to promote creative writing in schools.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on June 16, 2020

I want him to tell me that our love shattered you. I want him to tell me that if you were alive you would have picked me eventually. God, this book is awful. In the sense that I had a really powerful reaction to it... so I guess it's good? I requested Here is the Beehive from Netgalley because I have......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on January 05, 2021

Review also posted on blog: [URL not allowed] What is it like to be “The Other Woman? Personally, I would not know. In “Here Os the Beehive” however, we get a glimpse, and pretty, it is not. Nor is it anything like I’d imagined. On display here we have Ana. An Estate Attorney......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on December 13, 2021

Here Is the Beehive is a novel brilliantly crafted in verse. The use of this style easily brought emphasis where it was needed, and the precise and concise storytelling had me addicted to Ana’s story and how it was told. And Ana, you should know, was addicted to a man she couldn’t have due to an aff......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on November 27, 2020

I wanted you to tear the world to shreds to get to me. I wanted to be chosen. pg. 179 In one way or another, I think almost everyone can identify with the above. The realization that a relationship you hold so dear; has ended. Your love for the other person burns so bright it blinds you, but your partne......more

Goodreads review by Sara on August 08, 2020

ARC received in exchange for an honest review. A story told in verse about a married woman mourning the sudden loss of her lover. It starts at the end of the affair, in death, and focuses on how Ana begins to unravel in her hidden grief and jealousy towards wife Rebecca (I see those Daphne Du Maurier......more


Quotes

"Here is the Beehive is a psychologically-complex masterpiece. Twisty, deep, and ultimately devastating, this one is impossible to put down."—Sarah Dunn, author of The Arrangement