BOOKCLUB: The Bees - Laline Paull

This month we will be reading/discussing The Bees - Laline Paull. If you have not read the book, you are more than welcome to join. Be aware, there will be spoilers!

18:30 - 18:45 - Meet, get drinks, get settled (at the back and upstairs)
18:45 - 19:45 - Discuss the book
19:45 onwards - pick book for next meet and socialize

The Venue: Shinner and Sudtone

A lovely little pub with a variety of craft beer. Usually quiet on a Monday and we get the upstairs area. They serve food and dogs are most welcome.

The Book: The Bees - Laline Paull
Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Then she finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. But Flora cannot help but break the most sacred law of all, and her instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire, as overwhelming as it is forbidden...