THE HONEY THIEF
Elizabeth Graver
£6.99
'Written with sensitivity and wry humour'
Christina Koning The Times
'This is a powerful, emotional roller-coaster of a book and Graver's is an important new voice, at once resolutely understated and passionately honest'
Jewish Chronicle
The summer when eleven-year-old Eva is picked up on her fourth shoplifting charge, her mother Miriam decides it's time to start a new life in rural New York state. Perhaps there Eva can deal better with the loss of her father, as Miriam struggles with single parenthood.
But Miriam is witholding knowledge from her daughter about aspects of their past she would rather ignore. It is Eva's own secret - her friendship with Burl, a reclusive bee-keeper - that forces into the open the truths which will alter all three of them.
Elizabeth Graver
is the author of a novel, Unravelling, and a short story collection Have You Seen Me?. Her work has been included in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She lives in a small town in Massachusetts, where she keeps bees.