Description
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four years old. Now, at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unforgiving father, she has only one friend, Rosaleen, a Black servant.
When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily chooses to flee with her. Fugitives from justice, the pair 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.
The Secret Life of Bees: a novel about a young girl's journey toward healing and the transforming power of love.
Endorsements
'I adored The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, which were both wise, charming and sensual' — Santa Montefiore
'A wonderful book, by turns sad, full of incident and shot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris' — Daily Telegraph
'Charming, funny, moving' — The Times
'Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant . . . read it' — Joanna Trollope
Queen's Reading Room pick 2023 — Queen's Reading Room
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