Three 40-something women married to partners in a small-town Southern law firm wreak havoc in the lives of their cheating husbands in this light, likable debut.
Eadie Boone is no shrinking violet. But tailing her wayward husband is proving to be harder than she expected. A former Miss Snellville Beach who has married into one of the first families of Ithaca, Georgia, Eadie knows Trevor will never be happy until he leaves his twenty-two year old girlfriend and moves back home to write the Great American Novel. Now all she has to do is convince him.
Nita Broadwell reads soft porn romance novels with the idea of trying to put the zip back into her sixteen-year marriage to the tyrannical Charles. But so far the only person Nita has been able to fantasize about is Jimmy Lee Motes, the good-looking carpenter she’s hired to build her pool house.
Lavonne Zibolsky is a transplanted Yankee who has yet to assimilate Southern culture. Her husband, Leonard, has gone completely “native” but Lavonne, a former accountant, has spent the last eighteen years as a stay-at-home mom and housewife, suffering from a weight problem and a growing feeling of boredom and inertia.
The night of the big dinner party where they find out the truth about their husbands’ annual hunting trip, Eadie, Nita, and Lavonne band together to plan sweet revenge. The take-charge trio will see to it that the punishment is just, deliciously humiliating, and downright hilarious.
Booklist Magazine says, “Not since the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has there been a group of good ol’ gals to rival Holton’s trio of scorned Southern women…Irresistibly entertaining, Holton’s debut is hilarious, a cunning, rollicking addition to the popular Southern ‘steel magnolia’ genre.” |
Ballantine/Random House trade paperback, June 2007, ISBN-13: 9780345479280 |
