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by Sue Monk Kidd

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The Secret Life of Bees

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yeams for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.

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    Absorbing

    I love honey and bees! This book is set in South Carolina in the 60s. The entire story is draped in honey and it's golden and easy. There are dragonflies and dappled leaves, budding love affairs and cold lemonade on the porch—all set to a backdrop of buzzing bees, the civil rights movement and the loss of loved ones. This book will absorb you and suck you in.

    Review by Caroline Harrhy of the Cardiff Borders on 2009-02-11 09:41:28

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ISBN

9780747266839

Published
March 3rd 2003 by Headline Publishing Group
Category
Modern Fiction
Number of pages
384
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM
Dimensions
197 x 128

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