The hive
By: Gill Hornby
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781471341328
Subjects: Large type books; Female friendship; Fiction; Mother and child; Schools; Communities
Description: It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are learning sharper lessons on the other side of the school gates. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transcience of power ... and how to get invited to lunch. From the joys and perils of the Lunch Ladder, to the military operation that is the Car Boot Sale, via the dos and don'ts of dressing your child as a Dalek, all human life is here.