Sue Monk Kidd
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Date read: 15 - 21 August 2018
Length: 274 pages
Lily runs away from home after helping Rosaleen, her black servant, escape the hospital and a jail sentence. With only a photograph left by her long dead mother, the pair find themselves in the care of three beekeeping sisters. Yearning to learn more about her mother, Lily seeks the council of August, who knew her mother right before she died. Lily and Rosaleen have a new home!
Oh my goodness! It has been a long time since I've read a book like this. One where you're thinking about it all the time and you just don't want to put it down at night. I found myself going into a daze during the say, thinking about this book and what would happen in the next instalment when I read again. I just wanted to get home so I could read.
I wish there was a sequel. Sort of a many years down the line story, what happens when everyone is settled and their life looking after the bees.
I like the sisters names, how they are all months of the year starting from April. It's sad about what happened to her, and May. I felt sucked in to their world and felt real sadness with these characters. You really feel for them and it's kind of like you're there with them, experiencing all the same things they are.
The Secret Life of Bees is set in South Carolina, America at the height of racial discrimination. This was a time when a coloured person could be beaten up or even killed, just for the colour of their skin. But Lily is a kind hearted soul, and didn't care about any of that. She cared about what was on the inside. The sisters she goes to live with are coloured, and a few people who came to visit, mentioned to her that this was strange, she was lowering herself by being in their presence, living with them etc. But Lily didn't care. She was happy and she loved these people.
I have a few more Sue Monk Kidd books, so when I get around to them I will be very excited!
FYI, The Secret Life of Bees film is also really good. I actually saw it years ago, before I read the book, and I loved it then too. I will be re-watching at some point soon!
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Thanks,
The Wee Librocubicularist
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