The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes - A Novel

Zusatztext Praise for Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes “A broadly comic vengeance fantasy that rips along energetically . . . light and funny . . . Holton has a lively! fluid style that shifts easily among the viewpoints of several characters and goes down as easily as sweet tea.” –The Boston Globe “It’s great fun reading about these women as they trade their tea for tequila and get smart! get out! and get even.” –Nancy Thayer! author of the Hot Flash Club series “Irresistibly entertaining! hilarious! a cunning! rollicking addition to the popular Southern ‘steel magnolias’ genre . . . Not since the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has there been a group of good ol’ gals to rival Holton’s trio of scorned Southern women.” –Booklist “Sly! smart! and full of sweet! sweet revenge. Getting even has never been so creative. Or delicious.” –Louise Shaffer! author of The Ladies of Garrison Gardens From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Cathy Holton Klappentext Cotillion: A formal gathering of bright young women on the verge of entering adulthood! the society pages! and prospective high-tax-bracket marriages. Think a Civil War reenactment with crisp! clean white dresses. Catfight: An impromptu gathering of not-so-young women on the verge of losing their cool. Think a cotillion with hair-pulling. It's been more than a year since the Kudzu Debutantes exacted sweet! merciless revenge on their cheating husbands! but the repercussions are still palpable throughout Ithaca! Georgia: Nita is anxiously preparing herself for marriage to Jimmy Lee! a man thirteen years her junior; Lavonne! despite having dropped her husband-and eighty pounds-and launched her own business! longs for love; and while Eadie remains married to Trevor! she feels more neglected than ever. So the occasion of Nita's second wedding seems like just the ticket to cheer up the disconsolate Debs. But they've made a formidable enemy in Virginia Broadwell! first lady of Ithaca and the bride's ex-mother-in-law. Hell-bent on vengeance and determined to restore old-school social mores! Virginia hatches a plan so devious it makes her pedicured toes curl in anticipation. Soon enough! the women are knocked for a loop-but you can keep a Kudzu Debutante down for only so long. The one thing stronger than Virginia's wrath is the bond between the three friends! who soon learn that one of Virginia's Jimmy Choos contains an irresistible Achilles' heel. With spirit! wit! and down-home gumption! the take-no-prisoners trio decides it's time to ditch their cotillion manners as they rally to save Nita's marriage! Lavone's business! Eadie's sanity . . . and the honor of Kudzu Debs the world over. Packed with authentic Southern flavor and characters as colorful as an azalea in full bloom! The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes serves up stinging one-liners and earthy wisdom in equal measure. Leseprobe Chapter One Virginia Broadwell was angry. And anyone who knew Virginia, knew she was a dangerous woman when riled. Her first husband, the Judge, had learned this lesson long before he died, and her only son, Charles, had experienced the sting of her self-contained fury enough times over his forty-five years to be gun-shy. And her new husband would learn it, too, although Virginia would wait until the last thank-you note had been written and the ring was securely settled on her finger before showing Redmon that side of her nature. She would give him a chance to settle into the traces and take the bit firmly between his teeth before applying the whip the first time. Downstairs she could hear the wedding guests milling about. She looked around the flowered chintz bedroom she had shared with the Judge for nearly twenty-six years, and then spent the next twenty years enjoying in solitary bliss. It would be sad to leave this house, the one she had insi...

Product details

• Authors: Cathy Holton
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2008
• EAN: 9780345479297
• ISBN: 978-0-345-47929-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 202 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Kudzu Debutantes
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature