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 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