Sue Monk Kidd‎'‎s internationally bestselling first novel THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES has delighted many millions of readers around the world‎.‎ ‎'‎Charming‎,‎ funny‎,‎ moving‎'‎ The Times‎;‎ ‎'‎A wonderful book‎,‎ by turns sad‎,‎ full of incident and shot through with grown‎-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris‎'‎ Daily Telegraph 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 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.‎