Emotionally charged and compelling, Tell it to the Bees draws you into its world, a rich world of secrets and passion ... Fiona Shaw creates brilliant characters who stay with you long after the book is finished ... liberating and uplifting

- Jackie Kay,

Shaw's writing is lovely: elegant, subtle and haunting.

The Times

Powerfully exposes the wrenches of prejudice. It is a tender and unlikely page-turner

Financial Times

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A memorable evocation of an era when homosexuality was a crime and abortion illegal ... a committed and thoughtful writer intent on using her gifts.

TLS

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.
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A secret love which has a whole town talking ... and a small boy very worried.
A spellbinding story of forbidden love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger

Product details

ISBN
9780955647666
Published
2009-06-04
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd; Tindal Street Press
Weight
285 gr
Height
204 mm
Width
128 mm
Thickness
26 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336

Author

Biographical note

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.