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The New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club fearlessly takes on mothers and daughters, wedding madness, and midlife passion in this frank, funny, and fabulous novel.Georgia, Linda, Diane, Teeny, and Pru have been best friends since high school, and never have they needed one another more. Georgia's precious twenty-eight-year-old daughter, Callie, has gone and gotten engaged. Usually this would be cause for celebration. After all, this is the South, where dreams of white show more dresses and wedding bells are as important as finding the perfect hat. But Callie's intended groom just happens to be a man they went to high school and college with: Wild Man Wade! These women know more about the groom than the bride does. His drunken shenanigans. His wild oats. And all of his conquests as well as his mistakes. They can imagine him in the most inappropriate of circumstances, but not as a son-in-law!
With absolutely hilarious Southern observances and dead-on wit about mothers, daughters, marriage, and families, Wedding Belles will have you laughing and crying whether you live above or below the Mason-Dixon line.
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This is book three in the Red Hat Club series, but you don’t have to have read the previous volumes before reading this one (I certainly haven’t). Georgia’s only daughter, Callie, has just announced her engagement – to a totally unsuitable man! Or so Georgia thinks.
The novel covers several months of Georgia commiserating with her pals in the Red Hat Club as she worries about the great mistake her daughter is about to make, and does her best to put a smile on her face and get through the rounds of parties, showers and dinners in the couple’s honor. There are two subplots, including one friend’s long-lost cousin (a Jewish American Princess from Manhattan with nowhere else to turn) and anther friend’s grandchild (a show more charmingly precocious five-year-old who steals every scene she’s a part of).
The writing is repetitive. How often to I need to be told that John is a “big brain” or that Wade is an alcoholic bad boy? The subplots did little but fill pages. Smith doesn’t seem to trust her readers to figure anything out for themselves, because even the most obvious reference is explained in detail. And Georgia’s constant worrying just irritated my last nerve.
Still, it’s a fast read and there were a couple of entertaining (if totally implausible) moments. show less
The novel covers several months of Georgia commiserating with her pals in the Red Hat Club as she worries about the great mistake her daughter is about to make, and does her best to put a smile on her face and get through the rounds of parties, showers and dinners in the couple’s honor. There are two subplots, including one friend’s long-lost cousin (a Jewish American Princess from Manhattan with nowhere else to turn) and anther friend’s grandchild (a show more charmingly precocious five-year-old who steals every scene she’s a part of).
The writing is repetitive. How often to I need to be told that John is a “big brain” or that Wade is an alcoholic bad boy? The subplots did little but fill pages. Smith doesn’t seem to trust her readers to figure anything out for themselves, because even the most obvious reference is explained in detail. And Georgia’s constant worrying just irritated my last nerve.
Still, it’s a fast read and there were a couple of entertaining (if totally implausible) moments. show less
Another hilarious book by Haywood Smith. I do love her books, honey! I would love to have a bunch of friends like these girls!
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