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A review by thebookboy
Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
5.0
Simply devastating.
I loved this book so much that it actually hurt my heart a little to let it go once I'd finished reading it and I finished the whole thing in a frenzied couple of hours. It's a taboo subject - how can you feel after the man you're having an affair with has died and yet you can't tell anyone? It is an extra level of loneliness in grief - tinged with a nasty crust of the fact that the whole arrangement was a betrayal to begin with.
I adored the verse, the keen observations - the painful little recollections of the happiness battling against the responsibility - the battle the woman couldn't win. Masterful stuff and undoubtedly one of the most powerful books I've read this year.
5 stars.
I loved this book so much that it actually hurt my heart a little to let it go once I'd finished reading it and I finished the whole thing in a frenzied couple of hours. It's a taboo subject - how can you feel after the man you're having an affair with has died and yet you can't tell anyone? It is an extra level of loneliness in grief - tinged with a nasty crust of the fact that the whole arrangement was a betrayal to begin with.
I adored the verse, the keen observations - the painful little recollections of the happiness battling against the responsibility - the battle the woman couldn't win. Masterful stuff and undoubtedly one of the most powerful books I've read this year.
5 stars.