The Help - Kathryn Stockett

This is a WOW book. An excellent book which I will read again and again over the years. I enjoyed the film so thought I would enjoy the book too but even more so. It basically tells the tale of some black maids who have raised white children and in doing so have spent less time with their own children. It portrays the awful attitudes at the time and how most white people thought nothing of their treatment of their maids. I would have been embarrassed, like Skeeter, to have friends like those. The maids get their own back by telling their stories and Skeeter, a want to be writer, puts them together into a book. When it is published everyone is nervous as they don't know if their stories will be recognised and whether they'll be punished, sacked or beaten for telling truth.