The Help By Kathryn Stockett
Format:Paperback, 464 pages  Highly recommended reading.

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...

My Review.
This is a book I read while writing my Australian cross culture, Dreaming Billabong series with an interest as The Help was written about the 1060's period of civil rights as one of my novels is written in the decade before, the 1050's and I plan to write a novel about the 1960's in Australia. This is a time I remember well, I was aware of all the civil right struggles.  The book is excellently written, highly interesting from beginning to end.  The characters highly believable.  I highly recommend 'The Help.'

About the Author
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.

Reviews
The other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable Sunday Times
A big, warm girlfriend of a book The Times Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives. Its direct descendent The Help has the same potential...an astonishing feat of accomplishment Daily Express
Outstanding, immensely funny, very compelling, brilliant Daily Telegraph
Daring, vitally important and very courageous, I loved and admired The Help. Fantastic -- Marian Keyes
A laugh-out-loud, vociferously angry must-read Marie Claire
Touching, disgraceful, funny. Highly recommended Daily Mail

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