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The bees laline paull review5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What kind of research did you do in order to write so knowledgeably about bees and the world from their perspective? ![]() I wish there had been someone around to tell me about rewriting, because when it didn’t come out the way I meant (my family called it ‘sweet’ but it was supposed to be dark and dramatic) I assumed I couldn’t do it, and I remember being very upset because I really wanted to be a writer. I was always heading for the novel I started my first one age seven. What led you to write a novel, and why one about bees? You spent many years in the film business as a screenwriter and have also worked in the English theatre. The Bees is an intelligent and literary page-turner, the perfect book for the summer of 2014. ![]() For those of us who grew up on Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows and, especially, the adult “animal fantasy” Watership Down, The Bees provides a rare kind of adventure, filled with intriguing characters, a mysterious world made comprehensible, and thrilling life-or-death stakes. Inspired by the death of a beekeeper friend and fascinated by the world of honey bees, Paull engaged in an intense period of research and writing to produce her first novel after many years as a screenwriter and playwright. Laline Paull has written what may turn out to the “buzz book” of the late spring and summer. ![]()
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