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The Hive
The Hive: A Novel | Gill Hornby
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There's only room for one Queen Bee: A hilarious and touching novel about the social world of school mothers. It's the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transience of power...and how to get invited to lunch. Beatrice -- undisputed queen bee. Ruler, by Divine Right, of all school fundraising, this year, last year, and, surely, for many to come. Heather -- desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed, desperate to belong. Georgie -- desperate for a cigarette. And Rachel -- watching them all, keeping her distance. But soon to discover taht the line between amused observer and miserable outcast is a thin one. THE HIVE is a wickedly funny and brilliantly observed story about female friendship, power plays, and the joys and perils (well, mainly perils) of trying to do one's part.
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mcctrish
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My new favourite snack; cottage cheese and bbq ripple chips ❤️❤️❤️ all thanks for to my sister for creating this addicting combo

AmyG I do those with sour cream. Delicious 2y
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mcctrish
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Setting up for the day

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I can finally tick this off my “to read “ , a light hearted funny mums of the playground read . Personally not relatable but I‘m sure somewhere out there there are a few catty PTA Queen bee mums . It took a little while to have me hooked and I did feel it ended all quite suddenly but I did love the characters and enjoyed the laughs and the build up and found myself wanting to keep reading. 4*

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So I had one task on my day off yesterday .... find a dress for upcoming wedding.......No luck there but I did find these bargains 🤩 🙌

Before I discovered Litsy I had a Pinterest board with all my #tbr books , The Hive has been on there years!
So excited when I came across it 😍

Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🌺 5y
Powered_By_Plants THank you 🥰 5y
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SarahK
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Ugh some of these categories! The Hive was a nice kick off though.

georgie I love BOTNS (and especially BOTNS bingo) ❤️❤️ 8y
Lindy Good start! You've got titles on your Litsy TBR that will work for more. Little Red Chairs for protagonist over 50. Book Thief set during a war. Many others for recommended on BOTN square. 8y
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The Murphy's law of books, when you really want to finish the book you are reading but a thousand things keep you from being able to do so. In this case, work.

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