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The multi-million bestselling vel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of WingsSet in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afteron her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black stand-in mother, Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sister, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable vel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN-100142001740
ISBN-139780142001745
eBay Product ID (ePID)103432187
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SubjectScience & Mathematics: Textbooks & Study Guides
LanguageEnglish
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
FormatB-Format Paperback, Paperback
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Date of Publication27/02/2003
Place of PublicationLondon
Out-Of-Print Date31/01/2010
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
Author BiographySue Monk Kidd's first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than six million copies in the United States, and was turned into an award-winning major motion picture, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, was a number-one New York Times bestseller and adapted into a television movie. Her third novel, The Invention of Wings, was a number-one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club 2.0. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs, including the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in Florida.
ImprintPenguin Books Ltd
Edition Statement1st New Edition