The Red Hat Club Rides Again by Haywood Smith
Apr 12, 2006
The Red Hat Club Rides Again
By Haywood Smith
ISBN: 0312990766
St. Martin’s Press ©2005
As I grow older, my tastes in fiction seem to be changing. Well, maybe not changing per say, but evolving. Romance novels were my staple. Twenty-something heroines butting heads with hunky cowboys or wealthy businessmen…that was what I liked to read. Now days my attention has been brought to southern fiction with middle-aged heroines finding new love, keeping old friendships alive, and doing spunky things that you don’t expect someone the age of your mother or grandmother to do.
The Red Hat Club Rides Again by Haywood Smith is one of those books.
Baby Boomer Georgia, her partners-in-crime, SuSu, Teeny, Linda, Pru, and Diane come together again in a sequel to The Red Hat Club. They have been close friends since high school and have gone through marriages, children, and some divorces together. Members of the Red Hat Club, they meet monthly, without fail, at the Swan House Tea Room in Atlanta, Georgia for lunch, jokes and female companionship.
Haywood Smith describes in the book the many adventures, both good and bad, that these women experience, including a possible, unexpected late-in-life pregnancy, clandestine trips to an adult book store for costumes and props, an infamous kidnapping in Las Vegas when the women stage an intervention for Pru who is a drug addict, and an expensive plastic surgery cruise where the women show off their "new" bodies to each other in a crazy strip bridge game while wearing nothing but red hats, high heels and sunglasses. Add Elton John, a pushy socialite, and a sexy cowboy to the mix and you have a rowdy friendship story that will keep you coming back for more.
As the book says, "…remember that age is all in your head, calories should always be in chewable form (Diet Coke with chocolate eclairs!), and that when all else fails, your Red Hats will see you through".
I want to be just like the Red Hat ladies when I grow up.
© 2006 Dana Sieben
www.southerngalgoesnorth.blogspot.com
