The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd'Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous Do read it.' Joanna Trollope. Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides

endlessly self-doubting

a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence

Annabel Crabb

Who is he really

whose sister happened to be one of the drowned students and Emory's best friend

We don't see power as finite and hoard it

wise and peppered with black humour

Swan and Turtle

The enclave was the only world she knew

occasionally a little cliched

and emotionally ” from the most devastating circumstances

but felt throughout