![]() It is just far enough away from the White Mountain National Forest to have affordable real estate. My father was an apiarist by hobby, as was his father before him, and so on, all the way back to the first McAfee who was an original settler of Adams. I grew up on a small farm that had been in my father’s family for generations: an apple orchard that, in the fall, sold cider and donuts made by my mother and, in the summer, had pick-your-own strawberry fields. A few hundred yards past the antique Cape, my colonies form a semicircular rainbow of hives, and most of the spring and summer the bees zip between them and the acres of blossoms they pollinate, humming a warning. Honeybees are far less vindictive than their yellow jacket cousins, but people can’t often tell the difference, so anything that stings and buzzes comes to be seen as a potential hazard. ![]() It’s often that way for beekeepers-like firefighters, we willingly put ourselves into situations that are the stuff of others’ nightmares. MOST PEOPLE IN Adams, New Hampshire, know me by name, and those who don’t, know to steer clear of my home. But when I held Asher, slippery as a minnow, I was relieved.īetter to have a boy, who would never be someone’s victim. I had done such a stellar job of convincing myself of what I wanted that I completely forgot what I needed. When I gave birth, and the doctor announced the baby’s sex, I did not believe it at first. Each vision was a bead on a rosary of future memories I prayed daily.Īs it turned out, I was not a zealot. I imagined the day her fairy hair was long enough to capture in pigtails, her nose pressed to the glass of a school bus window I saw her first crush, prom dress, heartbreak. I pictured us with matching nail polish-me, who’d never had a manicure in my life. I wandered the aisles of department stores, touching doll-size dresses and tiny sequined shoes. Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s novel Mad Honey is out now, so they answered our questions about how they came to co-write a book together, becoming closer through the process, and the books they feel strongly about.įrom the moment I knew I was having a baby, I wanted it to be a girl. Jodi Picoult And Jennifer Finney Boylan On How A “Magical” Dream Turned Into A Book Project A well-paced story that highlights several timely issues, with a stimulating courtroom trial that makes it worth reading. Overall, it’s a fruitful collaboration.Ĭompelling. This timely and absorbing read will make readers glad these two powerful writers decided to collaborate.Ī spellbinding yarn. Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start.Īnd for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. ![]() Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. It’s about authenticity, identity, and it explores the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become our true selves.” “MAD HONEY has all of the things: alternating narratives, suspense, courtroom drama, and a love story at its core. This collaboration between two best-selling authors seamlessly weaves together Olivia and Lily’s journeys, creating a provocative exploration of the strength that love and acceptance require. ⭐ A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! ⭐Ī soul-stirring new novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She‘s Not There.
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