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The Bees

CD - unabridged
(9 CDs)
Product Number: DCD109
Released: 01 Jul, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9780007584475
Narrator(s): Orlagh Cassidy
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut Born into the lowest class of society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical. And while mutant bees are usually destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, and then becomes a forager, before finally finding her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses. But Flora’s instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire…

Author(s): Laline Paull
Awards:Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize 2015
Original Publish Date: 01 Jul, 2014

All Formats/Editions

Playaway
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Author(s): Laline Paull
Narrator(s): Orlagh Cassidy
Product Number D3128
Released: 01 Oct, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9780007584598
MP3 CD
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Author(s): Laline Paull
Narrator(s): Orlagh Cassidy
Product Number MPCD427
Released: 01 Jul, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9780007598236

Professional reviews

"‘The Bees is one wild ride. A sensual, visceral mini-epic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster.’ EMMA DONOGHUE, author of Room ‘This is a rich, strange book, utterly convincing in its portrayal of the mind-set of a bee and a hive… This is what sets us humans apart from other animals, that our imagination can allow us to create a complete, believable world so different from our own.’ TRACY CHEVALIER"

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