Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her attentive parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman, is raising her children alone after her husband's death. From a fresh new voice comes a searing debut, as told through the story of one unique family brought together by tragedy. "The Secret Life of Bees" set in Johannesburg.