Marnie and her younger sister Nellie live in a housing estate
in Glasgow. Their parents have disappeared. Which isn’t really a problem for
the girls, they like it like that. Marnie only has to make it through the year
without anyone knowing to avoid going into foster care and being separated from
her sister. If it were not for Social Services, a long lost relative recently
found, a drug dealer who wants his money back and an odd assortment of wacky characters,
the girls lives wouldn’t seem nearly so bleak.
But then an elderly neighbor with issues of his own and inexplicably,
a Russian mobster on the run, reach out to the girls and once again hope is on
the horizon and just maybe everything will work out.
The Death of Bees is a beautifully written, achingly sad, raw
at times, hilariously funny and always hopeful, read in one sitting, book. I absolutely loved it!
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