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Here is the beehive

As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of Ana Kelly's day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informing her that one of her clients has died. 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 a...

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Main Author: Crossan, Sarah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Edition: First North American edition.
Subjects:
Mitchell, Phyllis tribute.
Women lawyers > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Widows > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Summary: As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of Ana Kelly's day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informing her that one of her clients has died. 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. Alone and undone, Ana seeks friendship with the one person 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. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: 266 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 0316428582
9780316428583
Author Notes: Sarah Crossan grew up in Ireland and England. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University. She also completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of Warwick. In 2010, she received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing. She taught English for many years before deciding to writing fulltime. Her teen novels include Breathe, The Weight of Water, Resist: Breathe 2, Apple and Rain, and One. She was awarded The Bookseller's 2016 YA Book Prize as well as the CILIP Carnegie Medal for her novel, One.

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