Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
Summary
"Little Bee will blow you away," says the Washington Post. It intertwines the stories of a suburban London widow and a Nigerian orphan in "an utterly enthralling page-turner ... a harrowing and heartening marvel of a novel," says the Seattle P-I. The plot turns on a mystery, and as the Oxford Times says, "It would be a disservice to give away the powerful conclusion of this absorbing and gutsy story, which deals convincingly with ethical and personal accountability." Once you have read Little Bee, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds.
New York Times best-selling Little Bee is: shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, an Indie Next pick, a Santa Monica Citywide Reads selection, a St. Louis Contemporary Fiction selection, and soon to be a major motion picture.
Praise
"Immensely readable and moving ... an affecting story of human triumph" — New York Times Book Review
"Book clubs in search of the next Kite Runner need look no further than this astonishing, flawless novel... Cleave effortlessly moves between alternating viewpoints with lucid, poignant prose and the occasional lighter note." — Library Journal
"Little Bee will blow you away....In restrained, diamond-hard prose, Cleave alternates between these two characters' points of view as he pulls the threads of their dark — but often funny — story tight. What unfolds between them... is both surprising and inevitable" — Washington Post
"Every now and then, you come across a character in a book whose personality is so salient and whose story carries such devastating emotional force it's as if she becomes a fixed part of your consciousness. So it is with the charmingly named title character in Chris Cleave's brilliant and unforgettable Little Bee..." The Oregonian
About the Author
Chris Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His first novel, Incendiary, was published in twenty countries; won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award; was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize; won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award; and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. He lives in London with his French wife and three mischievous Anglo-French children, and can be visited at www.chriscleave.com.
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