Book guide
The Bee Sting
A family in freefall confronts buried truths as their present-day crisis spirals toward an uncertain reckoning.
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About The Bee Sting
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic friendship, and her little brother is falling into the black hole of the internet... Where did it all go wrong? The present is in crisis but the causes lie deep in the past. How long can this unhappy family wait before they have to face the truth? And if the story has already been written, is there still time to find a happy ending?
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- financial distress
- toxic relationships
- alcoholism
- bullying
- child abuse
- death
- drug abuse
- emotional abuse
- homophobia
- mental illness
- abortion
- dementia
- sexual content
- rape
- animal cruelty
- animal death
- domestic abuse
- gun violence
- sexual assault
- car accident
- fire and burn injury
- infidelity
- grief
- suicidal thoughts
- classism
- adult/minor relationship
