The Bees

The Bees

Written by:
Laline Paull
Narrated by:
Orlagh Cassidy

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Book
2
Narrator
1
Release Date
May 2014
Duration
10 hours 16 minutes
Summary
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015


Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015


Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.


Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.


But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.


But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. And when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce love that will lead to the unthinkable . . .


Laline Paull’s chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, ‘The Bees’ is the story of a heroine who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world.
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I found the book very interesting, I loved the descriptions of the insect world. It has left me wanting to do more research into how bees work and communicate and the affect insecticide and our modern technology is having on them. I live surrounded by orchards but hardly any insects as the farmers spray so regularly. What are we doing to the world....

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