Kathryn Stockett

The book that has taken the US and UK by storm. Enter a vanished and unjust world — Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy...

The Calamity Club is Kathryn Stockett's first novel since the global bestselling phenomenon The Help. This sweeping story follows a group of underestimated women and an 11-year-old orphan girl whose fates converge in Mississippi in 1933. Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come...