Trained in Hollywood as a screenwriter and with experience in London as a playwright, Laline Paull is the author of four novels. Known for her imaginative fusion of biology and science into emotionally gripping stories, her debut THE BEES was published in 2014 to critical and commercial success. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel The Ice is set in Svalbard against the backdrop of a melting Arctic and global geopolitical tensions, and tells the intimate story of one man’s self-delusion. Her third novel, POD, is a meticulously researched multi-species marine epic, was also shortlisted for The Women’s Prize. Her fourth novel, A PASSAGE TO HENDON, is a black comedy and family love story with political bite, spanning the start of the Raj to the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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