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Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her
mother when she was just four years old. Now, at j||»
fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's
love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unyielding father, she has only one friend, Rosaleen, a black servant.
When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. 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.
Praise for The Secret Life of Bees:
'Charming, funny, moving' The Times
'This is a wonderful book, by turns funny, sad, pij'i
full of incident and shot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris' Daily Telegraph
'Uplifting and warm-hearted, this is a moving novel' TAterary Review...
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Fülszöveg
I ¦
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her
mother when she was just four years old. Now, at j||»
fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's
love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unyielding father, she has only one friend, Rosaleen, a black servant.
When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. 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.
Praise for The Secret Life of Bees:
'Charming, funny, moving' The Times
'This is a wonderful book, by turns funny, sad, pij'i
full of incident and shot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris' Daily Telegraph
'Uplifting and warm-hearted, this is a moving novel' TAterary Review
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