The Help

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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