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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.

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`Charming, funny, moving and unmistakeably from the American South... a story that whips together heat, violence, eccentricity, madness and the Gothic' The Times (The Times)

A wonderfully written debut novel (Kirkus Reviews)

'I am amazed that this moving, original, and accomplished book is a first novel. It is wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous, and takes a line which is - refreshingly - strongly female without being cliche-feminist. It is also deliciously eccentric, which lifts it out of the usual category of a rite-of-passage novel into the realms of real distinction. Do read it' Joanna Trollope

Sue Monk Kidd... Illuminates what is beautiful... THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is a gift, filled with hope (Luanne Rice)

Moving, original, and accomplished...Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous... Do read it (Joanne Trollope)

'This is the story of a young girl's journey toward healing, and of finding, at its end, not only wholeness, but the intrinsic sacredness of living in the world. I think it is simply wonderful' Anne Rivers Siddons

'A novel of love and almost unbelievable courage, the quest of one young girl in search of her mother and so much more. Sue Monk Kidd takes on huge things, and by writing about what is mysterious, even difficult, in life, illuminates what is beautiful. She proves that a family can be found where you least expect it - maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is a gift, filled with hope' Luanne Rice

Eccentric, inventive, and ultimately forgiving... a truly original Southern voice (Anita Shreve)

With imagination as lush and colorful as the American South, a clutch of deliciously eccentric characters, and vivid prose, Sue Monk Kidd creates a rich, maternal haven in a harsh world (Christina Schwarz)

'Sue Monk Kidd's eccentric, inventive, and ultimately forgiving novel is reminscent of the work of Reynolds Price in its ability to create a truly original Southern voice' Anita Shreve
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A fabulous coming-of-age novel introducing a brilliant new voice: 'Moving, original, and accomplished...Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous... Do read it' Joanna Trollope

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  • PublisherHeadline Review
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0747270775
  • ISBN 13 9780747270775
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages384
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