Die 14-jährige Lily wächst in den turbulenten 1960ern im Süden der Vereinigten Staaten auf. Ihre bittere, dennoch humorvolle Geschichte des Erwachsenwerdens ist gleichzeitig eine über Mutter-Tochter-Beziehungen.
A debut novel from an American writer set in 1960s South Carolina. In a segregated community, a teenage girl and her black servant become fugitives, finding sanctuary with three bee-keeping sisters.
Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, spent 2. 5 years on the New York Times bestseller list, and has sold over 8 million copies worldwide. THE MERMAID CHAIR, THE INVENTION OF WINGS and THE BOOK OF LONGINGS were all New York Times bestsellers. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES was long-listed for the Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), and was turned into an award-winning film.
Sue is also the author of several acclaimed non-fiction books including the New York Times bestseller TRAVELLING WITH POMEGRANATES, co-written with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. Sue lives in Florida with her husband Sandy.
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Moving, original, and accomplished . . . wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous, and takes a line which is - refreshingly - strongly female without being cliche-feminist. It is also deliciously eccentric, which lifts it out of the usual category of a rite-of-passage novel into the realms of real distinction. Do read it Joanna Trollope
