THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10 2013. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarahs eleventh birthday Hetty Handful Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother wrapped in lavender ribbons and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so indeed the trouble begins ... A powerful sweeping novel inspired by real events and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts of beauty and ugliness of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.