<P> The Secret Life of Bees is a book by author Sue Monk Kidd . Set in 1964 , it is a coming - of - age story about loss and betrayal . It received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller . It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards ( Paperback ) , and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction . </P>
<P> The Secret Life of Bees is a book by author Sue Monk Kidd . Set in 1964 , it is a coming - of - age story about loss and betrayal . It received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller . It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards ( Paperback ) , and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction . </P>
when does the secret life of bees take place
when does the secret life of bees take place
1964
1964