The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk-Kidd
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A powerful and extraordinary novel about the unlikely friendship between two exceptional women during the last years of slavery in the US, from the celebrated author of the multi-million-copy-bestselling novel The Secret Life of Bees.
Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. Her mother says she's difficult and her father says she's remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows that what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept another person as a present. And so, indeed, the trouble begins …
A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, The Invention of Wings evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of otherwise respectable people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.
No. 1 New York Times bestseller
'A resonant, illuminating novel' – The Observer