WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013
An enchanting and grimly comic tale about love, loss, family and
unlikely friendships
Lisa O'Donnell won the Orange Screenwriting Prize in 2000 for her screenplay The Wedding Gift. Recently she took a break from screenwriting when she moved to LA with her two children. The Death of Bees is her first novel.
This vibrantly imagined novel, by turns hilarious and appalling, is
hard to resist.
*Daily Mail*
A black comedy, mixing The Ladykillers with Irvine Welsh’s The Acid
House...O’Donnell adeptly balances caustic humour and
compassion.
*Guardian*
Compelling piece of work... O’Donnell brings a freshness to her
narrative, thanks to the brilliantly evoked voices of her two young
female protagonists.... Warm without being cosy, explicit without
being shocking, and emotive without being schmaltzy, this is a
powerful coming-of-age tale with a clear eye for the travails of
21st-century deprived living.
*The Scotsman*
The Death Of Bees is compelling stuff, engaging the emotions from
the first page and quickly becoming almost impossible to put
down.
*Herald*
A dark, fierce first novel that is a page-turner and a fairy tale
turned inside out. I can’t wait to read what she writes next.
*New York Times*
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