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'''A ''Times Educational Supplement'' Teachers' Top 100 Book'''
Jackson, Mississippi: 1960. The talk at the bridge club and the tennis club is of what Jackie Kennedy is wearing. They're white women, of course and they're free to play because a coloured woman will be looking after the children, doing the shopping and cleaning the house. They're trusted to bring the children up, but they're not trusted to be honest about the silver. Aibileen is raising her seventeenth white child but something hardened in her heart when her son died whilst the white bosses looked the other way. They took his body to the coloureds' hospital and rolled it off the back of the truck and left.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
''The Help'' is set against what was happening in the USA at the time. If you'd like to read more of the historical background we can recommend [[Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot]]. For more about life in Mississippi (although at an earlier time) try [[Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor]]. We've also enjoyed a history of the blues from its origins in the Delta region of Mississippi in [[Delta Blues by Ted Gioia]]. We'd like to recommend you some fiction but, frankly, there's nothing to compare with ''The Help''although from Singapore, we have [[The Maid's Room by Fiona Mitchell]].
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