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The secret life of bees

Kidd, Sue Monk2008
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"Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only real companion has been the fierce-hearted, and sometimes just fierce, black woman Rosaleen, who acts as her 'stand-in mother'. When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily knows it's time to spring them both free. They take off in the only direction Lily can think of, toward a town called Tiburon, South Carolina - a name she found on the back of a picture amid the few possessions left by her mother.
Main title:
The secret life of bees / Sue Monk Kidd.
Imprint:
New York : Penguin Books, 2008, c2002.
Collation:
xii, 302, 14 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 2002.
ISBN:
97801431145509780142001745
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
BRN:
117996
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Kathleen Syme CarltonFictionKIDDOn loan - Due: 07 Jul 2026
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