The Ex-Debutante
Apr 25, 2008
The Ex-Debutante
Linda Francis Lee
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (April 1, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0312354967
I dearly love sarcasm and humor. Give me a book laced with those two ingredients, throw in a whole lot of Southern mannerisms and eccentricities, and I am in hog heaven.
That, dear readers, is what The Ex-Debutante is filled with.
This story is filled with my favorite type of Southern eccentrics - my favorite type for stories that is. The Rich Southerner who can trace their roots back 300 years. They are so immersed in tradition that has carried them through the decades that a lot of it seems absolutely ludicrous to us but very, very serious to them - thereby making it humorous.
This story is filled with all the traditions: tearoom luncheons where you only go to be seen; dinner at the club, cotillions, dinner parties. Of course never, ever, EVER being seen any less than 100% groomed........... until of course you sneak around in your nightgown in the middle of the night driving the gardener's truck to spy on your husband having an affair.
This is a story of such a family, the adult children dealing with a very eccentric mother while managing their own lives, a debutante's ball in crisis, a divorce with secrets to be hidden.... and two people who have been in love since high school but still haven't figured out how to make it work.
Give it a read, I guarantee you'll laugh all the way through.
