Bed & Breakfast: A Novel
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The delightful holiday tale of Josie Taternall and her South Carolina bed and breakfast from "born storyteller" (The Washington Post) and New York Times bestselling author Lois Battle
After her best friend's narrow brush with death, Josie decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of family togetherness. This year, she resolves, her three grown daughters - the girls she raised so carefully yet with such mixed results - will come home for Christmas. With her uncanny ear for Southern sensibility and her sharp-eyed wit, Battle gives us the perfect upstairs/downstairs comedy and a portrait of a family in all its tender, touching, and flawed glory that readers young and old will cherish.
"Full of warmth, humor, and characters I completely adore - as delicious as a weekend at your favorite inn." -Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times
After her best friend's narrow brush with death, Josie decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of family togetherness. This year, she resolves, her three grown daughters - the girls she raised so carefully yet with such mixed results - will come home for Christmas. With her uncanny ear for Southern sensibility and her sharp-eyed wit, Battle gives us the perfect upstairs/downstairs comedy and a portrait of a family in all its tender, touching, and flawed glory that readers young and old will cherish.
"Full of warmth, humor, and characters I completely adore - as delicious as a weekend at your favorite inn." -Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times
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Street Date:
08/25/2009
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Lois Battle. (2009). Bed & Breakfast: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Lois Battle. 2009. Bed & Breakfast: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.
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After her best friend's narrow brush with death, Josie decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of family togetherness. This year, she resolves, her three grown daughters - the girls she raised so carefully yet with such mixed results - will come home for Christmas. With her uncanny ear for Southern sensibility and her sharp-eyed wit, Battle gives us the perfect upstairs/downstairs comedy and a portrait of a family in all its tender, touching, and flawed glory that readers young and old will cherish.
"Full of warmth, humor, and characters I completely adore - as delicious as a weekend at your favorite inn." -Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times - reviews
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Battle's (Storyville) considerable storytelling gifts breathe life into what might well have become just one more novel about the estranged children of a dysfunctional Southern family. Josie Tatternall, the septuagenarian widow of an unfaithful martinet of an army officer and owner of a bed and breakfast in upscale Beaufort, S.C., is determined that all three of her daughters will be reunited for the upcoming Christmas holidays. That will be no easy task after years of real and imagined affronts among the siblings and their mother. A decade earlier, the eldest daughter, Camilla, had even vowed she'd never return home. But this year, Christmas looks so bleak for Cam--her job at a women's press is in jeopardy, her lover of three years has moved to Atlanta and she may be pregnant--that she reluctantly accepts her mother's invitation. Middle daughter Lila Gadsen, the "good girl" her mother can always count on, lives in nearby Hilton Head with her politician husband and two sullen teenagers and keeps a stash of Halcion and Percodan hidden in her designer kitchen. Beautiful Evie, who, her grandmother says, was "born dumb and had a relapse," lives in Savannah and writes a newspaper column that reveals a few too many family secrets. Despite Josie's best efforts, Christmas Eve is a disaster. It's another year and another Christmas season before Battle wraps up the loose ends and offers readers a true-love happy ending for a most surprising couple. Major ad/promo; author tour.
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After her best friend's narrow brush with death, Josie decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of family togetherness. This year, she resolves, her three grown daughters - the girls she raised so carefully yet with such mixed results - will come home for Christmas. With her uncanny ear for Southern sensibility and her sharp-eyed wit, Battle gives us the perfect upstairs/downstairs comedy and a portrait of a family in all its tender, touching, and flawed glory that readers young and old will cherish.
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