Some Day Youll Thank Me for This, Charlotte Hays
Some Day Youll Thank Me for This, Charlotte Hays
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Some Day You'll Thank Me for This
The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a "Perfect" Mother

Author: Charlotte Hays, Gayden Metcalfe

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2009


Synopsis

Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum good manners and the proper religion—ancestor worship—into the next generation.

In Some Day You'll Thank Me for This, Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, the bestselling authors of Being Dead Is No Excuse and Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet, deliver up a hilarious treatise—complete with appropriate recipes from those finicky, demanding moms—on the joys, trials, and tribulations of being the daughter of a Southern mother. Including such chapters as "A Crown in Heaven—The Southern Mother's Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Fashion Accoutrement," "Grande Dames and Other Mothers," and "Grandmothers: Why Precious Angel Baby Grandchildren Are So Much More Fun Than Granny's Own Bad Children," this is the perfect gift for any Southern mother—or the daughter of one.

About Charlotte Hays

Charlotte Hays is a Delta native and a former gossip column contributor to the Washington Times, New York Observer, and New York Daily News. She is coauthor, with Gayden Metcalfe, of the bestselling books Being Dead Is No Excuse and Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet. She lives in Washington, D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sophie on August 20, 2019

This book is hilarious. I'm choosing to believe that this book is a parody of the serious etiquette guides that no doubt exist, although if the authors are not being ironic then this book is tragic. I live in the UK and there's no southern mother's here. God help all those who are afflicted with the......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on April 22, 2014

This was a rather random Christmas present from my mother. I think she thought it would be funnier to me than it was, because we used to joke about Southern manners a lot while I was growing up. But she is not a Southern Mother, nor am I a Southern Daughter, and we most assuredly have not adopted th......more