South Carolina in the 1960s, Lily, now fourteen, has grown up on her father's peach farm believing that she accidentally killed her mother. When racial tensions explode she and her black servant flee, following a trail left by the dead woman which leads to the home of three bee keeping sisters. Bees work their magic, truths are uncovered, lies exposed in a novel of darkness and light which leaves a lingering afterglow, golden as honey.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 14 July 2002 ) |
