Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Author: Beth Hoffman

Narrator: Jenna Lamia

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/12/2010


Synopsis

Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.

Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town—a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell.

In her vintage Packard convertible, Tootie whisks CeeCee away to Savannah's perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity, a world that seems to be run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones, to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.

Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching, Beth Hoffman's sparkling debut is, as Kristin Hannah says, "packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart." It is a novel that explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship and gives us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.

About The Author

Beth Hoffman was the president and owner of a major design studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, before she sold her business to pursue writing full time. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and Looking for Me. Beth lives in Newport, Kentucky, with her husband and two very smart cats, in a beautiful historic home that she completely renovated.Jenna Lamia has appeared on- and off-Broadway, as well as on television in Law and Order: SVUStrangers with Candy, HBO's Oz, and MTV's Awkward., of which she is also the coexecutive producer. Her film credits include The Fighter and The Call.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karla on August 04, 2014

I adore this style of writing, dripping with deep southern charm set in the summer of 1967 Savannah, Georgia. What a sparkling gem of a debut for Hoffman. I'm gonna have to compare this book a little because of the age of the main character to Secret Life of Bee's with a 12 year old girl named CeeCe......more

Goodreads review by Candy on October 12, 2009

I cried real tears at parts of this lovely story of young CeeCee Honeycutt, a little girl who suffers unimaginable loss at the hands of a mentally ill mother and unsympathetic father. But like the spider web-trapped hummingbird rescued in Chapt. 27 by pulling "the stickiest strings free of the bird'......more

Goodreads review by Linda on May 31, 2020

This book was a total escape for me. I got lost in the world of precocious, 12-year old Cecelia Honeycutt who experienced growing up in a depressing Ohio home, with an absentee father and a psychotic mother that dies tragically. Hope finally appears with a flare, upon the arrival of her unknown, grea......more

Goodreads review by Karen on January 09, 2014

A book very reminiscent of "The secret life of Bees", "Midnight in the garden of Good and Evil" and a book that at times is so predictable it feels like it has copied the dozens of other books that involve southern charm, race relations, mother daughter relations and young women who rise above disad......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on March 05, 2010

I wanted to give this book 2 stars, but that felt a little unfair. There’s nothing wrong with the book per se, but it definitely didn’t live up to my expectations. The story is about CeeCee, a young girl from Ohio whose mother just died. CeeCee goes to live with an aunt in Savannah, Georgia where sh......more


Quotes

“Anyone in need of a southern-girl-power fix will find [Saving CeeCee Honeycutt] engaging. And it offers an invaluable reminder: Even when things look bleak, a few good friends can turn your life around.”
People

“A peach of a novel.”
Ladies Home Journal

“CeeCee Honeycutt is a sweet, perceptive girl with a troubled family, and this story of the summer that transforms her life is rich with hard truths and charm. This book unfolds like a lush southern garden, blooming with vivid characters, beauty, and surprises.”
Kim Edwards, bestselling author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

“An absolutely delightful debut novel packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart.  From the moment you first step into young CeeCee’s unique world, you'll never want to leave.”
Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of Fly Away

“Reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, I barely stopped laughing, even as my heart broke and broke again for CeeCee.  She goes through the wringer with Southern grace, but you never forget all she’s lost, and you never lose sight of her courage and deep resources.  Beth Hoffman has written her heart out in this novel that will clearly be the first of many.”
Luanne Rice, bestselling author of The Lemon Orchard and Little Night

“A tender and touching debut. Charming, disarming, sweet as the scent of magnolias on a Southern summer night, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt is a true delight.”
Mary Kay Andrews, bestselling author of Ladies' Night