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.
Here Is the Beehive
โ Scribed by Sarah Crossan
- Book ID
- 112878404
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316428576
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โฆ Synopsis
A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret โ 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 โ Rebecca. As Ana becomes closer to her...
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