The Same Sweet Girls - Hardcover

King, Cassandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401300383 ISBN 13: 9781401300388

Publisher: Hyperion, 2005

Synopsis

The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends. None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore, and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding biannual reunions ever since they were together in college, are nothing short of compelling. There's Julia Stovall, the First Lady of Alabama, who, despite her public veneer, is a down-to-earth gal who only wants to know who her husband is sneaking out with late at night. There's Lanier Sanders, whose husband won custody of their children after he found out about her fling with a colleague. Then there's Astor Deveaux, a former Broadway showgirl who simply can't keep her flirtations in check. And Corinne Cooper, whose incredible story comes to light as the novel unfolds.

About this title

Synopsis

This book allows you to join a circle of friends that will never be broken. Life, love, and friendship echo through the years for a group of Deep South women who have been holding biannual reunions since their graduation from college. None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore and none of them have ever actually been that sweet. But they have been alive. And real. And in love, and broken, and hurt and fixed and laughing and dancing and bitter and alive and caught on the miraculous breathlessness of a magnolia-scented Alabama evening. Six girls, now women. Six lives entwining throughout the endless alleyways of adulthood. Two meetings a year to share and bicker and argue and grow: two meetings in which the lives of three of the Same Sweet Girls come slowly unravelled, caught on snags that are stretching them to breaking point. Lady Julia Stovall, the perfect political wife. Torn between loyalty to her husband, the governor of Alabama, and an unwelcome attraction to his bodyguard. Former sports star Lanier Sanders, fun loving and irrepressibly drawn to catastrophe. She's done it again and this time it might just mess up her life for good.

And Corinne Cooper, a renowned gourd artist, battling her controlling ex-husband for the affection of her estranged son. On an island every summer and in the mountains every autumn, the Same Sweet Girls come together to share their stories. And when one of them falls prey to an event that will become the greatest challenge of her life, the girls discover the true extent of their friendship. This is a heartbreaking, hilarious and inspiring eulogy to the power of true friends.

About the Author

Cassandra King is the author of The Sunday Wife, The Same Sweet Girls and Queen of Broken Hearts. A native of Lower Alabama, she lives in the Low Country of South Carolina with her husband, novelist Pat Conroy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1401300383
• ISBN 13: 9781401300388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416