A novel spanning late 1940s small-town America and the New York media world of the 1970s, by the author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLESTOP CAFE. It tells the story of a television interviewer with emotional and drink problems who was abandoned as a teenager by her mother.
A novel spanning late 1940s small-town America and the New York media world of the 1970s, by the author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLESTOP CAF...
Daisy Fay is coming of age in the Gulf Coast's Shell Beach, the end of the road to the South, but a terrific place to meet the colourful locals. First published as Coming Attractions in 1981, the story takes place in the Texas of the 1950s.
Daisy Fay is coming of age in the Gulf Coast's Shell Beach, the end of the road to the South, but a terrific place to meet the colourful locals. First...
Right in the middle of everywhere, which could be anywhere. WWII has ended and the joyous transitions to peace are being - mostly - embraced. This book portrays characters ranging from Bobby Smith, the son of the well-known radio hostess Neighbour Dorothy, to the phenomena known as the Sunset Club, Dinner on the Ground and the Funeral King.
Right in the middle of everywhere, which could be anywhere. WWII has ended and the joyous transitions to peace are being - mostly - embraced. This boo...
Takes us through the lives of an engaging crew of misfits, fixers and ordinary good-hearted folk, set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow Alabama winter, along the riverside where birds and fish abound.
Takes us through the lives of an engaging crew of misfits, fixers and ordinary good-hearted folk, set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow A...
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she is off on a strange adventure, running into people, in the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, a dark secret emerges from the past - and the entire town is left wondering, 'What's life all about anyway?'
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she is off on a st...
Though her friends think Maggie has the perfect life, she's actually perfectly miserable. The former Miss Alabama is worried about how her life has turned out - she's given up on her dream of living in a beautiful home like Crestview, and instead is a real estate agent making a living selling that dream to others.
Though her friends think Maggie has the perfect life, she's actually perfectly miserable. The former Miss Alabama is worried about how her life has tu...
This book is the perfect gift for Mother's Day. It is the hilarious and heart warming new novel from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Wisconsin, 1941 - With all the men off to war, Fritzi and her sisters must learn men's work and the All-Girl Filling Station is born, complete with neat little caps, short skirts, and roller-skates. Their peace doesn't last long though: skilled women are needed to fly planes for the war effort...Alabama, 2005 - Mrs Sookie Earle has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to putting her feet up. But then one...
This book is the perfect gift for Mother's Day. It is the hilarious and heart warming new novel from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle...
