Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

What a fabulous book. Although the characters seemed all rather stereotypical, they certainly provoked the expected responses.
It's always good to read about someone not just accepting things and trying to make a change for the better.

leaving on the bookshelf by the door.

Picked up at last Templestowe Book Crossing mtg on Saturday. Looking forward to reading this - I enjoyed the film.

A well told story about life in the 1960's in Mississippi.

Will release at Templestowe Meet-up on Saturday 14th February 2015. To the next reader - Enjoy !!

Happy Birthday Catsalive

Thanks for the birthday wishes, Bill.

Left for the book exchange trolley.