Little Bee, (Paperback)

from EBT1002

I'm stingy with over 3.5-4 stars but I'm considering giving this one 5 stars. I think the only reason I might give it "only" 4.5 is because of some moments in the story of the affair between Sarah and Andrew which I found a bit tiresome. However, I believe he (Cleave) was intentionally running th...

from lkernagh

Little Bee by Chris Cleave is a gem of a book that builds in complexity as you delve deeper into the story. At the start we are introduced to "Little Bee", a 16 year old refugee from Nigeria who is at an immigration detention centre in Southern England, being released into the United Kingdom alon...

from lkernagh

Little Bee by Chris Cleave is a gem of a book that builds in complexity as you delve deeper into the story. At the start we are introduced to "Little Bee", a 16 year old refugee from Nigeria who is at an immigration detention centre in Southern England, being released into the United Kingdom alon...

from loosha

"For your holiday this year, why not try Nigeria?" This little book will answer that question for you. Little Bee is a Nigerian teenager, escaped without papers from a British immigration detention centre, who searches out a couple she had met one horror-filled day on a Nigerian beach. Their reun...

from bnbooklady

Little Bee is beautiful, awful, hopeful, devastating, and utterly unforgettable. Cleave juxtaposes gorgeous, almost poetic prose with a truly horrific story that is made bearable by moments of great humor and warmth, many of which are provided by Sarah's son Charlie, a four-year-old who is convin...