The Help - fantastic book!

[justgaveup]

Just read a book from the library called The Help - it's set in Missippi (sp! lol) in 1950s and is about black servants working in white households. Is a big, thick book and a fantastic read!

just wanted to pass it on and see if anyone else had read it

[seasalt]

Who is it written by?

[justgaveup]

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1905490437/?hvadid=4784284309&ref=pd_sl_4hqyp8kwje_b&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

Its by Kathryn Stockett

[pollywobbledoodle]

lucky you, not in our borough library....might buy off amazon

[seasalt]

Sounds good, I will keep an eye out for it in the library.

[deaddei]

I agree- It's wonderful. I saw it reviewed in the Times, and ordered it straightaway. Wonderful insight into the lives of black womes, but also a great story.

[elkiedee]

I'm currently reading this after hearing a lot of it serialised on Woman's Hour on Radio 4. It's set in the 1960s, and it's a good read. I don't know how much insight there is there into the lives of real black women, as it's by a white writer who is trying to imagine how it might have felt to be a black maid, or one of the white women they worked for, at the time.

[FuriousGeorge]

My local library have just told me that they have it waiting for me.I was 2nd on a list of 15 people waiting for a copy.I'm really looking forward to reading it.