The secret life of bees

The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
This book is about a teenager called Lily who is fourteen believing she had killed her mother. She is trying to figure out what happened she thought she killed her mother in a car accident then her father(T-Ray) tells her, that her mother left them she just dosen't know what to belive. When her father went outside she ran upstairs, went into the attic and found this old shoe box inside was two pictures and a pair of glovees, they were her mothers. She took them, knowing her father would realise they were gone so she dicided to hide them out in the woods so late on night she ran into the woods, dug a hole shallow enough so she could go out every night after her father went to bed and jusst think of her mother. One night when she went outside she fell asleep and her father found her, he took her back inside and her father was so angery he smashed up glass, put it on the floor and made Lily neel on it for hours.
Lily only has two friends a black servant called Rosaleen who her father hates and a bunch of bees. The reasonwhy the books called what it is, is because she is the only one who gets to see the bees, at night they are their and in the morning they are gone.

It was Lilys Birthday so Rosaleen dicided to take her to the shops, soon later Rosaleen gets caught for shoplifting and they both get ended up in a cell. Lily's fatherbails her out and leaves Rosaleen knowing whats going to happen to her.

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Soon later Rosaleen gets on but her father dies. She and
Rosaleen start traveling to virgina but the can't afford a train ticket,
they end living with a living famity when something terrible happens.

On the cover it says its a 'Number One Bestseller' and I can see why.

H. Browne