Lisa O'Donnell writes literary and coming-of-age fiction about young people dealing with neglect, bereavement and adults who are unable to protect them properly. The Death of Bees is narrated by sisters Marnie and Nelly after their parents die in a Glasgow housing estate and the girls secretly bury the bodies in the garden to avoid being taken into care. Their elderly neighbour Lennie becomes an unlikely source of stability while other adults begin to notice something is wrong. Closed Doors follows an eleven-year-old boy in a small Scottish community after an attack on his mother is concealed behind a false story. O'Donnell's novels are darkly funny and child-centred, fitting Scottish fiction, dysfunctional-family stories and literary coming-of-age. Read more Less
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