Laline Paull’s daring allegory The Bees secures a place among eminent finalists for the 2015 prize including Sarah Waters and Ali Smith
A debut novel set in a beehive and dubbed “the Animal Farm of the 21st century” by chair of judges Shami Chakrabarti has made the shortlist for the Baileys women’s prize for fiction, alongside books from some of the most acclaimed writers working today.
Laline Paull’s The Bees tells the story of Flora 717, a lowly, ugly sanitation worker in her hive who reaches the Queen’s inner sanctum. The author, a screenwriter and playwright turned novelist, will compete for the £30,000 Baileys prize with five authors who have all been previously shortlisted for the award, organisers announced.
Ali Smith was selected this time for her multiple award-winning How to Be Both, Sarah Waters was chosen for The Paying Guests, set in London in 1922, and Rachel Cusk was picked for Outline, in which an author travels to Athens to teach a creative writing course.
The six-strong line-up is completed with Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone, the story of a Pashtun soldier who fights in Ypres in 1915, and Anne Tyler’s look at the lives of the Whitshank family, A Spool of Blue Thread.
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Laline Paull’s The Bees tells the story of Flora 717, a lowly, ugly sanitation worker in her hive who reaches the Queen’s inner sanctum. The author, a screenwriter and playwright turned novelist, will compete for the £30,000 Baileys prize with five authors who have all been previously shortlisted for the award, organisers announced.
Ali Smith was selected this time for her multiple award-winning How to Be Both, Sarah Waters was chosen for The Paying Guests, set in London in 1922, and Rachel Cusk was picked for Outline, in which an author travels to Athens to teach a creative writing course.
The six-strong line-up is completed with Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone, the story of a Pashtun soldier who fights in Ypres in 1915, and Anne Tyler’s look at the lives of the Whitshank family, A Spool of Blue Thread.
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