The Death of Bees by Lisa O'donnell
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE 2013 Today is Christmas Eve. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Nelly enjoys playing the violin, eating cornflakes with Coke and reading Harry Potter. But on Christmas Eve, the sisters have to join forces and put their differences aside.
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. -- Alice Hoffman * New York Times *
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. -- Alice Hoffman * New York Times *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099558422 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099558424 |
| Title | The Death of Bees |
| Author | Lisa O'donnell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2013-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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