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As I said in the other discussion thread, I'm not sure I will take part in Nov/Dec group reads. However, I've noticed this book has very high ratings, especially from people whose judgment I trust and rely on. I watched the movie a lot of time ago and loved it, plus the Kindle ebook is quite inexpensive in Italy, so I'll think about it.
I do understand Marina and there's no pressure to take part if you're not interested in the books!
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women--mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends--view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Some purchase options
Amazon US - Paperback $9.52, Kindle $8.50
Amazon UK - Paperback £8.99, Kindle £4.99
Barnes and Noble US - Paperback $9.52, Nook - $11.99
WHSmith UK - Paperback £6.29
Waterstones UK - Paperback £8.99
Discussions will begin on 1st November. If anyone wants to be discussion leader then let me know, happy to it myself but would love to have other members getting involved!