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The Bees

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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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 & 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 & 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 & ominous But enemies are everywhere from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind & 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 & uncannily familiar Thrilling & imaginative The Bees' is the story of a heroine who in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival changes her destiny & her world

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police - Persons empowered to reduce civil disorder and enforce the law.
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