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***The phenomenal international bestseller that inspired the Oscar-nominated film***Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962.

Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . . There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it.

But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another.

Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell... 'The other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable' The Sunday Times'A big, warm girlfriend of a book' The Times'Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives.

Its direct descendent The Help has the same potential . . . an astonishing feat of accomplishment' Daily Express

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Penguin Books Ltd
0141039280 / 9780141039282
Paperback / softback
813.6
13/05/2010
United Kingdom
English
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444 p.
20 cm
Quiz No: 230667, Points 23.00, Book Level 4.40,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Amy Einhorn ; London: Fig Tree, 2009.