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The Secret Life of Bees: The stunning multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey; poignant, uplifting and unforgettable Paperback – 3 Mar. 2003

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'I adored The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention Of Wings, which were both wise, charming and sensual' SANTA MONTEFIORE

The 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 Trollope

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'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 stars

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Moving, original, and accomplished ... wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous, and takes a line which is - refreshingly - strongly female without being cliche-feminist. It is also deliciously 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 Trollope

Charming, funny, moving and unmistakeably from the American South... a story that whips together heat, violence, eccentricity, madness and the Gothic ― The Times

This is a wonderful book, by turns funny, sad, full of incident and shot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris. ― The Daily Telegraph

Eccentric, inventive, and ultimately forgiving... a truly original Southern voice ― Anita Shreve

Monk Kidd has created a narrative as skilful and sweet as a honeycomb. Uplifting and warm-hearted, this is a moving novel and Lily is a fascinating, funny and clever narrator ― Literary Review

Sue Monk Kidd... Illuminates what is beautiful... THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is a gift, filled with hope ― Luanne Rice

This is the story of a young girl's journey toward healing, and of finding, at its end, not only wholeness, but the intrinsic sacredness of living in the world. I think it is simply wonderful ― Anne Rivers Siddons

A wonderfully written debut novel ― Kirkus Reviews

With imagination as lush and colorful as the American South, a clutch of deliciously eccentric characters, and vivid prose, Sue Monk Kidd creates a rich, maternal haven in a harsh world ― Christina Schwarz

As original as its title and rivetingly so... It is one of the most inventive books I have read in a long time, and utterly compelling... This book demands 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 Times

Sue Monk Kidd has written a wonderful novel about mothers and daughters and the transcendent power of love ― Connie May Fowler

Lily is a wonderfully petulant and self-absorbed adolescent, and Kidd deftly portrays her sense of injustice as it expands to accomodate broader social evils...August and her sisters, June and May, are no mere vehicles for Lily's salvation; they are individuals as fully imagined as the sweltering, kudzu-carpeted landscape that surrounds them ― New York Times Book Review

What a splendid novel! It's wonderfully thoughtful and sensitive and compulsively readable ― Susan Isaacs

An incredibly original and imaginative book with great charm and atmosphere ― Glasgow Evening Times

A wonderful modern fairy tale...a touching story with a memorable cast of characters ― The Big Issue

A hive's worth of appealing female characters, an off-beat plot and a lovely style... Deeply satisfying ― Publishers Weekly

A honey-sweet novel ― Elle

Superb ― Woman & Home

Maybe it is true that there are no perfect books, but I closed this one believing that I had found perfection. The language is never anything short of crystalline and inspired. The plotting is subtle and careful and exquisitely executed...The characters are lovable and deep-hearted, fully dimensional, never pat. The story endures long after the book is slipped back onto the shelf ― Book magazine

I am amazed that this moving, original, and accomplished book is a first novel. It is wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous, and takes a line which is - refreshingly - strongly female without being cliche-feminist. It is also deliciously 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 Trollope

'Kidd's first novel is well placed, gentle and deeply moving' The Times ― The Times

'A personal favourite, one of those infectiously written books you can't get out of your mind...a lovely tale' Bookseller ― Bookseller

'A tale that's beautifully and movingly written' Buzz ― Buzz

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The multi-million-copy bestselling novel from the author of The Invention of Wings. The Secret Life of Bees was a New York Times bestseller for over two years, was made into an award-winning film and was long-listed for the Orange Prize.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tinder Press; New Ed edition (3 Mar. 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0747266832
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747266839
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm

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Sue Monk Kidd's debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than six million copies in the United States, was turned into both an award-winning major motion picture and musical, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, was a number one New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. The Invention of Wings, Kidd's third novel, was an Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick, and also a number one New York Times bestseller.

Her most recent novel, The Book of Longings, was published in paperback on March 23, 2021. Released in 2020 to widespread critical and reader acclaim, it was an immediate bestseller and book club favorite. It has been translated into 17 languages thus far.

Sue is also an acclaimed memoirist, with titles including The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, her groundbreaking work on religion and feminism, as well as the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in North Carolina.

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Customers find the book easy to read and well-written. They describe the story as poignant, heartwarming, and uplifting. Readers appreciate the thought-provoking themes and religious aspects explored in the story. The characters are described as interesting and well-drawn. The book introduces readers to the life of bees, which adds an extra dimension to the storytelling.

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Customers enjoy the book's writing and storytelling. They find it engaging with beautiful prose and descriptions. The story is described as heartwarming, interesting, and easy to read without typos.

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Customers find the story thoughtful, poignant, and tender. They describe it as a gentle coming-of-age tale about a young girl and her journey to find peace. The book is described as an amazing story with a group of women that really show the emotional depth of the characters. It's a story of love and loss, highs and lows, good decisions and bad ones, and a personal and emotional growing-up journey.

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Customers find the book heartwarming and emotional, highlighting the suffering endured by people. They describe it as gentle yet deep, motivational, with engaging characters and a story set in the context of beekeeping. The writing is stunning, the symbolism is spot-on, and the plot development is well-crafted. The book is presented without moralistic or apologetic tone to smooth over discrimination.

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Customers find the book thought-provoking and inspiring. They say it has an underlying spiritual core that is not immediately apparent. The story makes them believe in humanity and explores religious themes without being overbearing. Readers appreciate the wisdom and beautiful prose. It covers important topics like racism and grief.

"...Her courage and determination, mingled with the wonderful imagination and self-preserving lies she employs to survive in a strange and alien..." Read more

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Customers find the characters interesting and well-developed. They appreciate the finely drawn characters and their connections that evolve slowly. The novel's setting is beautifully portrayed, and the women feel warm and spiritual towards one another.

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"...it is not a 'powerful' book but it is charming and full of enchanting characters but unfortunately I found it a little sickly sweet and in parts..." Read more

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Customers enjoy the book's information about bees and beekeeping. They find the comparison between the story and the bees' regular routines interesting. The process of beekeeping helps tie the characters together.

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Stuart Aken
An Unexpected Gem.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2016
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Who’d have thought a novel written from the point of view of a fourteen-year-old American chapel-going girl would find favour with an agnostic British male pensioner? This one did, and how!
Lily is given an authentic voice by the writer so that there’s no danger of author intrusion in this tale of prejudice, faith, injustice and coming of age. It’s always both fascinated and amazed me that the deep south of the USA, with its large population of holier than thou churchgoers was also the hotbed of slavery and racial prejudice. It’s as if the true message of the New Testament never made it through the ignorance and the concept of hypocrisy never arose. But it can’t be as simple as that, since many well-educated folk were every bit as prejudiced on the grounds of skin colour alone.
This novel is set against the background of the early results of the move towards the removal of racial discrimination: a move that seems to have a long way yet to go. Some of the events are alien to the culture of rural Britain, where religion is treated with the suspicion, if not the contempt, it deserves. The unthinking cruelty, ignorance, and pointless prejudice of the times and the region are wonderfully portrayed along with the corruption of their policing system.
But it is Lily’s innocent pursuit of justice that most strongly drives this story. She is an intelligent and troubled girl in search of love, and desperate for answers to the mysteries of her life. Her courage and determination, mingled with the wonderful imagination and self-preserving lies she employs to survive in a strange and alien environment, are beautifully conveyed. Character is the most important element of any novel and here we come across a cast of real, credible and interesting people. Mood, atmosphere, emotion and state of mind all rise effortlessly from the page.
There are passages where little happens, but the descriptions and attention to detail carry the reader through these quiet times, preparing the ground for the upheavals and tensions that make this book a real page-turner. The portrayal of the local distortions of the Catholic faith, exemplifying how such belief systems allow myth and legend to take on the mantle of truth and fact, is cleverly interwoven into the narrative. And the references to the lives of the honey bees, that form a central theme and allegory to the tale, are well researched and fascinating in themselves.
I was able to picture the countryside with its wild aspects mingled with the towns and farms, see the pink house and the orchards with their hives, appreciate the clothing and styles of the characters, and enjoy the flavours and aromas of the food they served and ate.
There is sadness, brutality, joy, corruption, innocence, exploitation, ignorance, danger, exploration, love, and the first stirrings of desire in this beautifully written novel. I can’t now recall how I came across it; I suspect it was on of one of those lists of books recommended by avid readers. I’m glad I did, however, as I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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The Secret Life of Bees fills you with haunting images followed by a hope for a better future
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2018
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The Secret Life of Bees begins in the summer of 1964 with Lily, 14, and her dad T.Ray in South Carolina. Her mum had died when Lily was a very young child and ever since Lily has had a troublesome childhood. She never felt like she belonged anywhere, and her dad seemed particularly cruel and unloving. Her only glimpse of caring came from Rosaleen, the woman T.Ray took from working in the orchard to help around the house.

In a world where black people were considered lower class citizens, Rosaleen did not have the best life growing up either. Together, Lily and Rosaleen navigate through the challenges of being a black woman in a white man’s world, whilst also dealing with Lily’s emotional scars of losing a mother. Although the president signed the Civil Rights Act and allowed black people to vote, there was not an immediate shift of public opinion. Lily is forced to grow up quickly when she is exposed to the truth of racism in the southern states.

The pair end up on a journey to a different kind of world when they meet August and her sisters making honey in the big pink house. Lily works to resolve her conflicting feelings for her mother and the day she died, and looks to find a place where she truly belongs.

Sue Monk Kidd focuses on the stories we all know about racism and the fight for equality. Her female characters show strength and determination in the face of adversity. The story feels so familiar at times but still catches your breath as it sweeps you from one emotion to another.

The Secret Life of Bees fills you with haunting images followed by a hope for a better future. It balances grief with love, despair with belief, and betrayal with loyalty. Although religious themes are explored, they only serve to enhance the characters rather than getting too involved. The process of beekeeping adds another dimension and pulls the characters together.

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I have a new appreciation for bees!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2014
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This is the first book by Sue Monk Kidd that I have read and I decided to read it as the reviews seemed really good. I was not disappointed. The story deals with the issues of black servants for white people in the American South in the 60's. This is a naturally interesting subject, much has been written on the matter and there are some great heartfelt stories from this time and this book is one of them.

The story follows Lily. Lily is a young white girl who believes that she killed her mother. She has lived with this since she was a small child, and as now she starts to blossom out into adolescence, she wants to find out more about what happened and more about her mother. Lily lives with her father who does not provide her with any love at all (or any information about her Mother). The only love Lily seems to have is from Rosaleen, the black servant. When Rosealeen is beaten for nothing other than the colour of her skin, Lily and Rosaleen decide to go on the run. They end up at a bee farm and the 3 sisters there give Lily and Rosaleen the sanctuary that they need. The story then continues with Lily learning more about her mother and more about the racial tensions in the area at the time.

This is a very heartfelt book that deals with a difficult subject. Each chapter starts with a little fact about bees, which I loved! The descriptions of the inter-racial relationships and the complexities that accompany these are sad and well written. The style of writing and description throughout the book was excellent; you can almost hear the bees and taste the honey. I loved this book and was completely absorbed by it. I have now purchased this authors next book.

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A masterpiece
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This has been one of the most beautiful books I have ever read! Emotional, heartbreaking, inspirational, tender and innocent - the story of a young girl and her journey to find peace. And so many interesting facts about the lives of bees too. I will read it time and again for the rest of my life.

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Emotive
Reviewed in Canada on 6 February 2025
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The best thing about this book is that the author hits you over the head with descriptions of every sense: you will feel the honey dripping, you will feel it stick to your fingers and smell it while you read. It makes the story so much more meaningful and memorable, like you were there.

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Sue Monk Kidd is a New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees. Some of her more recent works include The Book of Longings and The Invention of Wings. The Secret Life of Bees is a novel set in South Carolina in the year 1964, and it follows the story of 14 year old Lily Owens, on her journey to discover more about her mother’s past. An incident takes place towards the beginning of the story in which Lily and her caretaker Rosaleen escape their hometown and find a new place to live. They eventually find themselves in Tiburon, South Carolina, taken in by three beekeeping sisters.
This work of fiction begins with a slower pace in order to set the scene, but becomes filled with more and more significant plot points as it continues. Lily, a white teenager living in the south during a time of extreme racial discrimination, learns the secrets and wonders of beekeeping through these black sisters. The story also reveals the beauty and significance of sisterhood, womanhood, and community, to a girl who is longing for a mother she never got to know. Throughout the text, overall themes of love, grief, race, and unity are explored. The author paces the story with care, and is descriptive throughout, in order to encapsulate the duration of an entire summer. Sue Monk Kidd’s beautiful use of language allows the audience to feel submerged within the story, and deeply connect with the backgrounds and emotions of all of the characters. The text features extremely well developed characters, many of whom are eventually found to have connections with one another towards the end.
Personally, I adored this book, and would easily add it to my list of favorites. At first, I will admit to having had some trouble maintaining my attention span before the story picked up pace, but when it did, it was difficult to put it down. The story is narrated from the perspective of a teenager, and there are many aspects that a young, especially female audience can relate to. Despite this story being surrounded around female characters, this is a perfect book for people of all genders and ages to enjoy. No matter what background somebody comes from, anybody can gain a lot of meaning and insight on life from this book. This novel was incredibly eye opening, simply beautiful, and the whole story is tied together perfectly towards the end. I am hoping to read more of Sue Monk Kidd’s work in the future.

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A child’s journey to find herself and about her dead mom
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Lily, a 14-year-old girl who lives with her abusive father and has a foggy memory of her mother's murder, is the subject of the story The Secret Lives of Bees. It takes place in South Carolina in 1964, when there was racial discrimination. We also have Rosaleen, who has been the family's maid for almost ten years and serves as Lily's mother figure.

This book tells the story of Lily's search for her mother and how, in some ways, it relates to beekeeping.

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Tolles Buch, sehr gut umgesetzter Film
Reviewed in Germany on 6 July 2019
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Habe zuerst den Film gesehen, dann das Buch gelesen. Natürlich weicht beides ab, aber nicht zu sehr. Beides ist wirklich empfehlenswert da die Geschichte sehr emotional erzählt wird und einen guten Einblick in diese Epoche der US-amerikanischen Geschichte bietet.

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Reviewed in Spain on 7 August 2017
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Buen libro. Era un libro de lectura obligada en un curso de inglés y la verdad es que me acabó gustando mucho. Una cautivadora novela que trae a la memoria tomates verdes fritos, llevada al cine con un elenco espectacular.
Carolina del Sur, 1964, en plena lucha por los derechos civiles. Una adolescente y su amiga negra deciden escapar del duro porvenir que les espera en su ciudad, y a la vez buscar respuestas sobre lo ocurrido a la madre de una de ellas, fallecida en extrañas circunstancias. Por el camino se encontrarán con tres hermanas afroamericanas que se dedican a la apicultura y que las acogerán en su casa.

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