Synopses & Reviews
Welcome to Mimosa Branch, Georgia.
Check your sanity at the door.
Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed.
Lin's barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty-year-old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long-suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love-hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next-door neighbor. Trying to navigate her way through the second act of her life with nothing more than a prepaid calling card, a broken heart, and plenty of Prozac, Lin's about to discover that it's never too late for old friends, new romance, the ties of family, and a second chance to survive it all on the road to becoming the person you were always meant to be...
Review
"Girl power at its best. Add deliciously bitchy Linwood Breedlove Scott to literature's steel magnolias. Haywood Smith's wounded heroine is one of those women you want to hug and shake at the same time, as you cheer her on in her struggle for self-respect, love, and revenge. She discovers what really matters: 'Friends forever,' she says, 'and we go on.' You'll wish Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch did, too." Sandra Dallas, author of The Chili Queen
Review
"Here's a story that proves you can go home again. Come and sit for a spell, laugh a bit, feel good again, and be delighted!" Lynne Hinton, author of Friendship Cake
Synopsis
Welcome to Mimosa Branch, Georgia. Check your sanity at the door.
Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed.
Lin's barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty-year-old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long-suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love-hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next-door neighbor. Trying to navigate her way through the second act of her life with nothing more than a prepaid calling card, a broken heart, and plenty of Prozac, Lin's about to discover that it's never too late for old friends, new romance, the ties of family, and a second chance to survive it all on the road to becoming the person you were always meant to be...
Synopsis
Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed.
Lin's barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty-year-old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long-suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love-hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next-door neighbor. Trying to navigate her way through the second act of her life with nothing more than a prepaid calling card, a broken heart, and plenty of Prozac, Lin's about to discover that it's never too late for old friends, new romance, the ties of family, and a second chance to survive it all on the road to becoming the person you were always meant to be...
About the Author
Atlanta native
Haywood Smith lives on the shores of Lake Lanier, near the small town of Buford, Georgia. She has one son, currently in medical school, who is married to a "wonderful, fearless Christian woman," and a close family that includes her mother, three sisters, and a brother. Inspired by her own observations of Southern life and family, she created this funny, joyous tribute to one woman's triumph over adversity. Watch for Haywood's next book,
The Red Hat Club, the story of five Atlanta women whose warm, witty friendship keeps them together and sane through high school in the sixties, college, the evolution of the New South, marriage, children, corporate wifedom, the garden club, death, kiddie sports, affairs, menopause, financial ruin, rehab, facelifts, divorce, and the Junior League.