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A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday GraingerA 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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Tell it to the Bees, Fiona Shaw
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Tell it to the Bees
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fiona Shaw
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0955647665
- ISBN13
- 9780955647666
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Women, Relationships, LGBTQ+, 20th century, England, Society, English Literature, Coming Of Age, LGBTQ+ Romance, Social Critique, Young Adult Romance, Scotland, Passion, Breakup, separation, Searching for Oneself, Post-War Era, 1950s
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday GraingerA 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.