The Help

***the Phenomenal International Bestseller That Inspired The Oscar-nominated Film*** 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 A 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' The 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 Helphas The Same Potential . . . An Astonishing Feat Of Accomplishment' Daily Express