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Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago … an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell.
In her vintage Packard convertible, Tootie whisks CeeCee away to Savannah’s perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity, a world that seems to be run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons, to Tootie’s all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones, to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.
Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching, Beth Hoffman’s sparkling debut is, as Kristin Hannah says, “packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart.” It is a novel that explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship and gives us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.
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I loved this book. Wonderful characters, and descriptions of Savannah.
One of my favorite all time books.
Wonderful read. Heartwarming story that kept you interested right to the end, with unpredictable humor.
I loved this book. The characters are wonderful. Hated to see it end. A feel good book.
Very good book. Great characters. Sad circumstances, but held hope that true love for a person no matter their status or past could help heal their brokenness.
Great book
A good feel good book. Easy to read.
I absolutely LOVED this book!!
I want to go running to Savannah and find these characters!!! This book made me feel good , laugh, and want to never leave this place!!!!
When an author can create a world you want to go to and never leave, now that’s an author!!!!!!
Can’t recommend it enough!!!!!
This book was bought for me by my best friend. I absolutely loved it. The characters are brilliant and the story line is wonderful. I could not put it down.