Best of ‘The Bees’ interview with Laline Paull
It's such a unique story: how did you come to the idea in the first place?
It was a gift from a friend of mine who was a beekeeper and dying of cancer, although I didn't realise that until she'd gone. One of the last things she ever said to me was that she hoped there'd be a flowering of creativity when she'd gone. I hope that now I know what she meant by that, because in the immediate aftermath of her death I started to read about the honeybees which she loved so much and which she called her “girls”. Read More
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