Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. 'The Handmaid's Tale' meets 'The Hunger Games' in this brilliantly imagined debut.
This book is great for the teen market but really anyone could enjoy it and indeed should, for it is quite something. Her story is incredible, fast, gripping, delightfully easy to read and full of great ideas. Propelled by a set of strange coincidences and lucky accidents of time and place, the lowly worker bee, Flora, works her way through the whole hive the nursery, the morgue, even the Queen’s chamber and learns a few more secrets than she should. These bees are not anthropomorphised or overly sentimentalised into cute cartoon characters the action and communication is kept as realistic as possible whilst still providing a novel with depth of emotion and excellent characterisation. The life of bees is examined and fictionalised as never before. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015.Īn excellent book unlike any other. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015.
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