Where-raised in both Buckinghamsire (UK) and Cameroon.A sense of humor and an unflinching moral compass allow each woman, and the reader, to believe that even in the face of unspeakable odds, humanity can prevail. Now together, they face a disturbing past and an uncertain future with the help of Sarah's four-year-old son, Charlie, who refuses to take off his Batman costume. They first met on a beach in Nigeria, where Sarah was vacationing with her husband, Andrew, in an effort to save their marriage after an affair, and their brief encounter has haunted each woman for two years. Sarah is a posh young mother and magazine editor with whom Little Bee shares a dark and tumultuous past. But their bond will face the ultimate test when the system catches up with Little Bee, and each woman must make a devastating decision.Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, has just been released from the British immigration detention center where she has been held under horrific conditions for the past two years, after narrowly escaping a traumatic fate in her homeland of Nigeria.Īlone in a foreign country, without a family member, friend, or pound to call her own, she seeks out the only English person she knows. United by their past and by love for Sarah's young son, Charlie, Little Bee and Sarah become indispensable to each other. Little Bee tries to make a life for herself in a totally alien land while Sarah must come to terms with her choices in London, including an extramarital affair and her seemingly frivolous career path. Told in turns in the first person by Little Bee and Sarah, the novel follows these two women as they struggle to save each other and themselves. When Little Bee unexpectedly appears at Sarah's doorstep, it is the day of Andrew's funeral. All three of their lives were horribly changed by that meeting on the beach.

The novel opens on the day Little Bee is released from the center with no identification papers and only the address of an English couple, Andrew and Sarah, whom she once met on a Nigerian beach. Little Bee, the young female refugee from the Nigerian delta, must master the Queen's English and the Queen's England if she is to escape her past and make a life in the UK after two years in a refugee detention center.

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