The Secret Life Of Bees - Sue Monk KiddCondition: Pre Loved 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 decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an

and of her grandmother

in which death by AIDS has become a currency in the hands of the morally bereft and the politically expedient

and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience

Born in Sophiatown

and ultimately trapped in a brutal

narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle

Elizabeth enlists Joyce

but has lived insulated from its true horrors

Now Ray has a new clientele

Struggling with a forbidden relationship

Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter

Imagine if there was a map that showed you step by step how to get from where you are now to your true calling and the life you were born to live—the most brilliant