The Secret Life of Bees

By Sue Monk Kidd

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Secret Life of Bees is the 2002 debut novel by Sue Monk Kidd, adapted into a 2008 film. In 1964 South Carolina, fourteen-year-old Lily Owens runs away from her harsh father with her Black caregiver, Rosaleen. They find refuge with three beekeeping sisters, where Lily searches for the truth about her dead mother.

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