Andrew's Brain
by E. L. Doctorow | 
Kitty Foyle
by Christopher Morley | 
This Side of Innocence
by Taylor Caldwell | 
Point of No Return
by John P. Marquand | 
Pilgrim's Inn
by Elizabeth Goudge |
Daughter of Silence
by Morris West | 
The Plot
by Irving Wallace | 
The Insult
by Rupert Thomson | 
The Good Companions
by J. B. Priestley | 
A Kind of Loving
by Stan Barstow | 
A Girl in Winter
by Philip Larkin | 
Ticket to Ride
by Dennis Potter | 
The Affairs of Others
by Amy Grace Loyd | 
Want Not
by Jonathan Miles | 
Run with the Horsemen
by Ferrol Sams | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout | 
Don't Let Me Go
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver |
Elizabeth Graver's first novel, Unravelling, was hailed on publication as "exceptional" (The New York Times Book Review), "a pleasure" (The New Yorker), and "exquisitely poignant and sensual" (The Boston Globe). Now, in her second novel, she proves herself to be a major voice in American fiction. The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is caught shoplifting (for the fourth time), her mother, Miriam, decides the only solution is to move out of the city to a quiet town in upstate New York. There, she hopes, they can have the normal life she longs for. But Miriam is bound by a past she is trying to forget, and tensions escalate. It is only when Eva meets a reclusive beekeeper that she-and her mother-can find their way back to each other, and can begin life with renewed promise. A haunting novel of memory and desire, The Honey Thief reveals the healing power of friendship and the ineradicable bonds of mother and child.