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The Secret Life of Bees

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The indelible story of a daughter and her stand-in mother, pitted against racism. It’s a deeply moving story of women empowerment and motherhood, and it can’t be missed.

The multi-million 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 and The Book of Longings

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decid...

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