When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it.
Two years later, they meet again - the story starts there. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. We don't want to tell you too much about this book. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Costa Novel of the Year, this international bestseller has become a reading group classic. But their bond will face the ultimate test when the system catches up with Little Bee, and each woman must make a devastating decision. United by their past and by love for Sarah's young son Charlie, Little Bee and Sarah become indispensable to each other.
Little Bee tries to make a life for herself in a totally alien land, while Sarah must come to terms with her choices in London including an extramarital affair and her seemingly frivolous career path. Told in turns in the first person by Little Bee and Sarah, the novel follows these two women as they struggle to save each other and themselves. When Little Bee unexpectedly appears at Sarah's doorstep, it is the day of Andrew's funeral. All three of their lives were horribly changed by that meeting on the beach. The novel opens on the day Little Bee is released from the center with no identification papers and only the address of an English couple, Andrew and Sarah, whom she once met on a Nigerian beach. Little Bee, the young female refugee from the Nigerian delta, must master the Queen's English and the Queen's England if she is to escape her past and make a life in the UK after two years in a refugee detention center.
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