Waking Up in Dixie, Haywood Smith
Waking Up in Dixie, Haywood Smith
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Waking Up in Dixie
A Novel

Author: Haywood Smith

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/05/2010

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her "white trash" family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's at the mercy of all his appetites and emotions. Transformed, Howe wants to be a real husband—which scares proper, repressed Elizabeth to death—and setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. The ensuing hilarious rollercoaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth and their marriage but the whole town and its hidebound institutions.

About Haywood Smith

Former real estate agent Haywood Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Red Hat Club, a publishing phenomenon celebrating women's friendships that inspired real-life "Red Hat Clubs" across the nation. Her many other novels include Ladies of the Lake, Wedding Belles, The Red Hat Club Rides Again, and Queen Bee of Mimosa Beach. Haywood lives in Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Krissy on March 22, 2015

This book was okay. I liked the idea of the book. The whole terrible husband/father wakes up from coma changed and determined to make amends and fix his marriage plot caught my interest pretty quickly. But there were a few things that kept me from really enjoying the book. First I could have done wi......more

Goodreads review by Wendyll on November 24, 2010

Meh... Started strong and charming but quickly got a little too cheesy. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to feel bad for the protag- can't be too difficult to find onself with a multi-billionaire footing the bill. Nice message of independance here... still... fluffy light and amusing reading.. it......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on February 22, 2014

A little too much saving grace for me......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on February 22, 2015

Although this book was not quite what I expected, I did enjoy it. I thought it was going to be a story poking fun at living in the South because of the title since the book cover used the word 'hilarious' in its review. Even though I did not find it to be particularly humorous, it was a good read. I......more

Goodreads review by Maam on May 20, 2014

I would classify this as a fun poolside/beach read. Interesting story but not terribly well written. I felt like several things were repeated too much and the whole story of PJ was too vague. When Elizabeth would wrestle in her mind about him, I'd wonder, did I miss something because I felt like the......more