The secret life of bees

Set in South Carolina in the sixties, a time when racial segregation is still practised, young Lily is compelled to rescue her one friend, a black servant, who is beaten and jailed. There follows a journey where Lily learns as much about the world as she does about herself.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kidd, Sue Monk
Resource Type:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Headline Book Publishing 2004.
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. Maternal deprivation > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Beekeepers > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. South Carolina > Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans.