Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society - and lead her to unthinkable deeds. She also finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous.īut when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all - daring to challenge the Queen's fertility - enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. Click here to order it for £6.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. The Bees is published by Fourth Estate (£8.99). Through imagining what it is like to be a bee, the novel ends up reflecting on what a marvel it is to simply be – cutting to the heart of existence as it pits the perils of extinction against the fierce instinct to survive. Bees are, in nature, programmed to follow this way of life, but by giving the reader a glimpse into a beehive through the mind of one individual bee, she suggests that all created beings have a desire to distinguish themselves. Nevertheless, the lyrical prose holds the attention, for this is a novel that delights in language, savouring words with the same relish with which Flora rolls honey on her tongue. In The Bees, Laline Paull presents a world where the Collective is valued over the Individual. Paull is also a playwright and there are moments of real dramatic tension, although the plot doesn’t always maintain a steady pace and at times breaks the bounds of believability. It isn’t only sweetness but bitterness that seeps through the bees’ lives as environmental catastrophe threatens their very survival.
Thrilling and imaginative, ‘The Bees’ is the story of a heroine who changes. The bees can smell emotions, making this novel a richly evocative feast for the senses. Laline Paull’s chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Sold by Harper Collins 4.2 star 169 reviews Ebook 352 Pages familyhome Eligible info.As well as conjuring the complex hum and throb of the hive, Laline Paull crafts a sticky matrix of emotion, for these bees feel, and Flora’s feelings are palpable. The Bees: A Novel by Laline Paull - Books on Google Play The Bees: A Novel Laline Paull May 2014
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