The Secret Life of Bees

The Historical Fiction Book

* A novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd.

* Set in the American South in 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act and intensifying racial unrest.

* The coming-of-age story addresses the difficulty of loss and betrayal.

* It received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a film directed by Gina Prince- Bythewood.