The Bees

Name: The Bees
Author: Laline Paull
ISBN: 9780007598892

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This brilliantly imagined debut follows Flora 717, a sanitation worker bee in a vast superorganism. Unlike her sisters, Flora was born with an unusual mutation that gives her an unprecedented size and strength. When she is spotted cleaning the holy chamber of the Queen, she is transformed into a forager bee, a rare and dangerous assignment that takes her outside the hive. As Flora experiences the world beyond the hive walls, she discovers a landscape of incomprehensible beauty and danger. She encounters other creatures, tastes the intoxicating sweetness of forbidden flowers, and begins to form her own thoughts—a dangerous development in a world where all workers must obey the Queen's scent-commands. But her curiosity and her differences make her a threat to the rigid hierarchies that keep the superorganism alive. Told from the perspective of the bees themselves, The Bees is a stunning novel about the lives of these remarkable creatures—and a gripping story of an individual struggling against the confines of her world.

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