num_pages: 375
description: 20/20 Edition - Headline 20th Anniversary EditionThe classic multi-million copy bestseller - ‘powerful, poignant and humorous’ Joanna TrollopeLily 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 a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they 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.
language: English
title: Secret Life of Bees
titlecomplete: Secret Life of Bees
characters: Lily Owens, May Boatwright, June Boatwright, August Boatwright, T. Ray Owens, Rosaleen
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Classics, Novels, Coming Of Age, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1266358
places: Tiburon, South Carolina, South Carolina, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Paperback, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Gateway Readers Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: LovelyBooks Leserpreis
category: Allgemeine Literatur
publisher: HEADLINE (HODD)