By Charlotte Hughes
Mira Books
ISBN #1551668637
Romantic Comedy
October 2001
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell, of BEST REVIEWS
I picked this book up at a particularly distressful time and by Chapter Six I was howling with laughter at this quite hilarious book. I highly recommend it.
Marilee Abernathy's minister husband Grady not only ran off with the town floozy but he took their son with him. After two comically failed attempts at suicide, Marilee decides to just go on with her life, especially when her next door neighbor, Sam Brewer comes to her rescue.
Sam is everything that Grady is not but Sam had a very bad reputation as a womanizer back in high school and you know what getting a reputation in a small town in high school means. You are stuck with it for life.
Marilee makes some radical changes in her life. She not only gets a job as a receptionist in a funeral parlor but she also gets a night time job as a pianist in a supper club. She needs all the money she can get her hands on if she ever hopes to regain custody of her son. Then her two best friends bring her an Amazonian black pregnant teen-ager, Winnie, to stay as she has no other place to go.
The whole book seems to be one comedy of errors after another but Charlotte Hughes pulls it all together quite nicely not only into a beautifully told story but also into a believable one at that.