A Hand Maid's Tale meets _How I Live Now i_____n this page-turning dystopian YA which the author has described as a 'love letter to her daughter'.

In a world where bees are at risk of extinction, one girl fights for her own survival.

Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It's a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It's a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to marry as soon as they can. Inhabiting this world is Jess and her friends Cass, Deva, and Ruth. But even if one fourteen-year-old knows that the system is dangerous, can she really stoke a revolution?

• Incredible new voice in YA literature from a recognisable Welsh adult author
• Srong environmental message - it has been predicted that if honeybees were to become extinct, man would have only four years to live. Hand pollination is already practised in China as an estimated 80% of China's native wild honeybee population has already been lost).
• Empowering female friendships