Tell it to the Bees
Apr 2010 · Profile Books
4.8star
48 reviews
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A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger
A secret love which has a whole town talking ... and a small boy very worried.
Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down.
Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals don't like things done differently. As Lydia and the doctor become closer, the rumours start to fly and threaten to shatter Charlie's world.
A secret love which has a whole town talking ... and a small boy very worried.
Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down.
Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals don't like things done differently. As Lydia and the doctor become closer, the rumours start to fly and threaten to shatter Charlie's world.
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4.8
48 reviews
Sneaky Cat
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August 17, 2024
Great book, highly underrated, and a thousand times better than the movie. I've reread this at least 3 times already.
M M
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January 14, 2024
Its pedophilia. I needs to be banned!
Jane Walker
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July 22, 2021
The book was great and I loved the fact that it had a different ending than the film.
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About the author
Fiona Shaw lives and works in York. She is the author of several books, including Out Of Me, The Sweetest Thing and The Pictures She Took.
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