Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
Penguin UK
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 search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell…
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
Monique Roffey
Lorrie Moore
Hilary Mantel
Attica Locke
Barbara Kingsolver
Rosie Alison
Sarah Waters
Kathryn Stockett
Amy Sackville
Monique Roffey
Lorrie Moore
Nadifa Mohamed
Hilary Mantel
Maria McCann
Attica Locke
Andrea Levy
Laila Lalami
Barbara Kingsolver
Sadie Jones
M.J. Hyland
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Roopa Farooki
Amanda Craig
Clare Clark
Eleanor Catton
Rosie Alison
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