{"product_id":"9780747266839-2637","title":"The Secret Life of Bees: The stunning multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey; poignant, uplifting and unforgettable by Monk Kidd, Sue | Paperback |  Subject: Contemporary Fiction | Item Code:2637","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct DescriptionDON'T MISS THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW NOVEL FROM SUE MONK KIDD, THE BOOK OF LONGINGS - PUBLISHED ON 21ST APRIL 2020, AND AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWThe Secret Life of Bees: The multi-million-copy bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings. Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four years old. Now, at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unforgiving father, she has only one friend, Rosaleen, a black servant.When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily chooses to flee with her. 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. 'A wonderful book, by turns sad, full of incident and shot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris' Daily Telegraph'Charming, funny, moving' The Times'Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant...read it' Joanna TrollopeWhat readers are saying about The Secret Life of Bees:'One of the most poignant and heart tugging books I have ever read' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'Emotional and heart-breaking, yet full of hope and love. I laughed and cried equally through the book. This wonderful book will stay with me for a long time to come' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars'One of the best books I've read in a while. Touching, well-written, beautiful, full of expression, insightful' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'A beautifully written masterpiece. I loved the writing, the descriptions, the humour sprinkled through the story. There was sadness and love, hope and forgiveness. I highly recommend this book' Goodreads reviewer, 5 starsReviewMoving, original, and accomplished ...wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous, and takes a line which is -refreshingly - strongly female without being cliche-feminist. It is alsodeliciously 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 TrollopeCharming, funny, moving and unmistakeably from the American South... a story that whips togetherheat, violence, eccentricity, madness and the Gothic,The TimesThis is awonderful book, by turns funny, sad, full of incident andshot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris.,The Daily TelegraphEccentric, inventive, andultimately forgiving... a trulyoriginal Southern voice,Anita ShreveMonk Kidd has createda narrative as skilful and sweet as a honeycomb.Uplifting and warm-hearted, this is amoving novel and Lily is a fascinating, funny and clever narrator,Literary ReviewSue Monk Kidd...Illuminates what is beautiful... THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is a gift, filled with hope,Luanne RiceThis is the story ofa young girl's journey toward healing, and of finding, at its end, not only wholeness, but theintrinsic sacredness of living in the world. I think it is simply wonderful,Anne Rivers SiddonsA wonderfully written debut novel,Kirkus ReviewsWith imagination aslush and colorful as the American South, a clutch ofdeliciously eccentric characters, andvivid prose, Sue Monk Kidd creates a rich, maternal havenin a harsh world,Christina SchwarzAs original as its title and rivetingly so... It isone of the most inventive books I have read in a long time, and utterly compelling... This bookdemands to be read again and again, for it is not so much the solving of the mystery that is compulsive, but the gentle, sensitive, humorous and intensely colourful creation of a world far from our own,Oxford TimesBook DescriptionThe multi-million-copy bestselling first novel from the author of\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Used Good | Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37000329789603,"sku":"9780747266839 | 2637","price":49.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3857\/8002\/products\/51GcV3hBq4L.SY400.jpg?v=1605477583","url":"https:\/\/www.worthing.in\/products\/9780747266839-2637","provider":"Worthing.in","version":"1.0","type":"link"}