Book description
Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen.
Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were
beloved.
Marnie and her little sister Nelly have always been different.
Marnie leads a life of smoking, drinking and drugs; Nelly enjoys
playing the violin, eating cornflakes with Coke and reading Harry
Potter. But on Christmas Eve, the sisters have to join forces and
put their differences aside. And when Lennie, the old guy next door,
starts to get suspicious, it's only a matter of time before their
terrible secret is discovered.
Lisa O'Donnell won the Orange Screenwriting Prize in 2000 for her
screenplay
The Wedding Gift
. Recently she took a break from screenwriting when she moved to LA with
her two children.
The Death of Bees
is her first novel.
