Tattooed_Mummy reviewed The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Review of 'The Secret Life of Bees' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I listened to the audio book over a few weeks on my daily commute.
This is a beautiful book, in fact a perfect book.
Gorgeous prose that compliments rather than detracting from the story. I wasn't sure what the story would be about and the beginning seemed very dark and sad, I wasn't sure I was going to like it (in that it wouldn't make me happy) but soon the book blossomed and became a sweet story of a young girl in a world she can barely comprehend.
I loved this story was wrapped around hives and dripping with honey, filled with the buzzing of bees ; all of which are just a tiny part of the tale of the deep American south, of racism, of change, of life and death and how we are all tiny parts of a whole...just like the bees.
Read this book (or listen to it - the narrator on the audio book is excellent)