The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way
By (Author) Linda Bruckheimer
Penguin Putnam Inc
Plume
1st February 2005
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
368
Width 1mm, Height 1mm, Spine 1mm
1g
Rebecca Jean Wooten St. Clair and her sister, Carleen, pack up their two teenage daughters and leave California via Route 66 for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they will celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of their mother, Lila Mae.Waiting for them is their sibling Irene ("Baby Sister"); Olive, their feisty, ninety-five-year-old grandmother; and a hometown that's troubled by a string of mysterious crimes, and invaded by Horace Castle, a slick-talking real estate developer. Rebecca, Irene, and Olive join forces with their zany friends and relatives to save Blue Lick Springs while each sister grapples to rescue her own heart. On the web- http-//www.lindabruckheimer.com
"A lark from start to finish, The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way features women armed with razor-edged wit and keen intellects who take on their changing world." --Los Angeles Times
"Go with the flow and relish all the very funny scenes... Yet, underlying the mayhem there is a lovely thread of devotion to Kentucky." --The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky
"Bruckheimer takes on the adage 'you can never go home again' with her elegant, humorous prose and an obvious affinity for the virtues of small-town life." --Gotham magazine
Linda Bruckheimer has served as the West Coast Editor of Mirabella magazine and produced two award-winning PBS specials. She divides her time between her farm in rural Kentucky, not far from where she grew up, and Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, film producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and her daughter. This is her first novel.