The Help. Film Tie-In

Enter a vanished 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 dissapeared.

Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer sill would tolerated it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of a truth. And together they have and extraordinary story to tell...

'A laugh-out-loud, vociferously angry must-read' - Marie Claire
'Touching, disgraceful, funny. Highly reccomended.' - Daily Mail