All the Bees in the Hollows
$30.39
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
Bees choose their masters. Bees don’t sting good people.
Maryt is a devoted beekeeper. She lives by the old rules: work with fellow beekeepers, be a good Christian and a good harvest will follow. These rules help her cope with her grief when she inherits her husband’s tree hollows. But as harsh conditions and tax increases threaten the harvest, Maryt begins to question her faith, her community and her own sanity.
There is little help to be had from her eldest …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923022850 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923022857 |
| Author: | Lauren Keegan |
| Publisher: | Affirm Press |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 154mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Beautifully written, atmospheric and compelling. ~ Inga Simpson
‘Lauren Keegan’s debut novel is beautifully constructed … a perfect read for those who need to escape completely into another time of fantastical beliefs, and yet also be comforted by the rule of nature’. - Readings Monthly
‘Keegan combs a liminal world where Christianity and underlying pagan ritual meet in a novel that delivers a murder mystery, wrapped in a domestic drama, wrapped in a Grimm-like fairytale’. - The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Stunningly written, with evocative descriptions of the forest, seasons and beekeeping life’. - Good Reading
‘A mystical and suspenseful debut’. - The Australian Women’s Weekly
Lauren Keegan
Lauren Keegan is an author and psychologist living on Dharawal and Gundungurra Country (Wollondilly, New South Wales). She has worked in perinatal and infant mental health for fifteen years, has two young girls and drinks more tea than is sensible. She is the author of All the Bees in the Hollows, which was voted Best Debut Fiction at the 2025 Indie Book Awards and longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025. This is her second novel.
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