The Secret Life Of Bees

The Secret Life Of Bees

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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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  Reviewed by Alana M. | see all reviews by Alana M.

  22/12/2010

  I really enjoyed this book. It was far better than the movie, that is usually the way, but it is well worth the read. Being taken back to a time us in Australia will never really understand, southern black america in the 1960's is an interesting place to read about and try to understand.
  Sad, funny, happy, with lifes lessons along the way keep the story moving and you along with it.
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