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Fiction Set in the Sixties
If you liked The Help by Kathryn Stockett, here's a selection of other novels which explore their characters' lives in this time of social change:
The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Plum wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner
We are all welcome here: a novel by Elizabeth Berg
The Queen of Palmyra: a novel by Minrose Gwin