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Queen Bee Goes Home Again (2014)

by Haywood Smith(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1250003512 (ISBN13: 9781250003515)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: I flipped through this book - and started reading the first chapter of it - while waiting to start a Book Signing of one of my own books at a Barnes & Noble store. I snickered through the first pages and hated to put the book down to begin to talk to my fans ….So naturally I had to find and read the entire book later. And I laughed, sighed, and was delighted with every minute of it. This was the first book I've read by Haywood Smith and will not be my last! She really has a great understanding of Southern women, customs, and the ways of family. It was easy to identify, commiserate, and laugh with Linwood Scott - who due to a life fiasco - is forced to move back home to her mama's home in small town Georgia. Mixed with the warmth and humor of this great story … I also... more enjoyed the aspects of faith that Haywood Smith slips in. This is the sort of book you'd like to read again.
review 2: The novel begins with Lin, the 60 year old main character and narrator, forced to sell her home and move back in with her 90 year old mother, Miss Mamie, in the little GA town of Mimosa Branch. Lin's career as a real estate agent has been smacked by the housing depression in Atlanta; she's looking to start over again and does that by enrolling in college, to finish a degree abandoned 40 years before for marriage. Plus she falls in love with the new Baptist minister (divorced, as is Lin)and helps deal with her father and uncle, who are in the local nursing home with Alzeheimer's. Lots of potential for comedy and commentary here. All ends reasonably happily, of course. Miss Mamie is a wonderful fantasy character. At 90, she constantly prepares full course delicious meals, makes homemade peach ice cream at the drop of the hat, cleans house, etc. Lin confesses at the beginning of the book that she makes it through life with the help of estrogen, Welburtin and a couple of other prescriptions but I want to know Miss Mamie's secret. less

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