The secret life of bees /
by Sue Monk Kidd.
- London : Headline Review, 2004.
- 375 p ; 20 cm.
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.