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AUSTRALIA
Fiction
Sue Monk Kidd time, but they both have some
The Invention of of the same issues to deal with.
Wings Sarah, though not a slave is
bound by the heavy restrictions
placed on her because she
The Secret Life of Bees is a is a woman, and Hetty is
previous title of Sue Monk Kidd’s doubly handicapped by being
and it became a book club female and a slave. Some of
favourite for years and was the characters in the book are
made into a movie. Her new based on some real life women,
book, The Invention of Wings who worked to abolish slavery;
is set in the deep south of the this at a time when women were
United States and is about a mostly seen and not heard, and
middle daughter called Sarah, slavery well entrenched.
who is variously thought of as
remarkable by her father, or Sue Monk Kidd covers the
just darn diffcult by her mother. full gamut of emotions in the
In the strange and cruel world story and it will be a good
of slavery in the deep south, a Sarah’s eleventh birthday to be book for book groups again
girl slave, Hetty is taken from her hand maiden. They then as there is plenty to discuss. It’s
her mother, wrapped in ribbons spend the next few decades an entertaining and enjoyable
and presented to Sarah on together, uneasily a lot of the read. Paperback, $30
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AUSTRALIA
Fiction
Sue Monk Kidd time, but they both have some
The Invention of of the same issues to deal with.
Wings Sarah, though not a slave is
bound by the heavy restrictions
placed on her because she
The Secret Life of Bees is a is a woman, and Hetty is
previous title of Sue Monk Kidd’s doubly handicapped by being
and it became a book club female and a slave. Some of
favourite for years and was the characters in the book are
made into a movie. Her new based on some real life women,
book, The Invention of Wings who worked to abolish slavery;
is set in the deep south of the this at a time when women were
United States and is about a mostly seen and not heard, and
middle daughter called Sarah, slavery well entrenched.
who is variously thought of as
remarkable by her father, or Sue Monk Kidd covers the
just darn diffcult by her mother. full gamut of emotions in the
In the strange and cruel world story and it will be a good
of slavery in the deep south, a Sarah’s eleventh birthday to be book for book groups again
girl slave, Hetty is taken from her hand maiden. They then as there is plenty to discuss. It’s
her mother, wrapped in ribbons spend the next few decades an entertaining and enjoyable
and presented to Sarah on together, uneasily a lot of the read. Paperback, $30
8 Independent Media Inspiring Minds
