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The secret life of bees

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This is the 20/20 edition - Headline 20th Anniversary edition.

It is the classic multi-million copy bestseller - 'powerful, poignant and humorous' - Joanna Trollope.

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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Headline Review
0755330692 / 9780755330690
Paperback
813.54
03/04/2006
United Kingdom
English
General
375 p.
20 cm
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Quiz No: 216719, Points 15.00, Book Level 5.70,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Viking; London: Headline, 2002.