![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where did the idea for The Bees come from? Novels that portray animals as human-like in their thoughts and desires aren’t unheard of-from Watership Down to The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore-but insects are an unusual choice. We asked Paull, who lives in London, a few questions about the inspiration behind this remarkable first book. There, worker bee Flora 717 discovers she’s also able to lay eggs, a one in 10,000 anomaly that draws the notice of the queen as well as some unseen complications. Not so for screenwriter Laline Paull, whose ambitious first novel, The Bees, doesn’t feature a single human character-and it’s set in the labyrinthine world of the hive. In a world where writers are eternally reminded to “write what you know,” debut novels are often thinly veiled memoirs, or at least tentatively tied to the author’s own experience through location or life experience. ![]()
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