The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
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 yearns 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.
Format: Paperback | 375 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.8 | 258g
Publication Date: 2015
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Imprint: Tinder Press
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 1472216210
ISBN13: 9781472216212
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including a scuff marks on the bottom-left side of the front cover, and a half-removed sticker which is just a white square patch, on the top-right corner of the front cover, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins.