St. Martin's Press
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Featuring: Elizabeth Mooney; Howell Whittington
400 pages ISBN: 0312614217 EAN: 9780312614218 Paperback Add to Wish List
From the New York Timesbest-selling author of The Red Hat
Clubcomes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second
chances. When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her
"white trash" family to marry Howell Whittington, the crown
prince of her small town, she never dreamed that thirty
years later, she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to
the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then
Howe has a stroke in church, and when he wakes up, he's at
the mercy of all his appetites and emotions, telling the
truth with no filters. Transformed, Howe wants to be a real
husband, which scares the socks off proper, repressed
Elizabeth. Setting out to right past wrongs, Howe blackmails
the town's baddies into doing the right thing. The ensuing
hilarious roller-coaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth
and their marriage but the whole town and its hidebound
institutions. Haywood Smith's sharp wit and keen
observations about men, mothers-in-law, marriage, and
small-town Southern living will having you laughing and
reading long into the night.
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