This is uplifting for women in that stage where you feel that life has passed you by, and a fun read for all.
They discover secrets about the husband and themselves while having fun and dealing with loss. When they discover that one of their husbands has a cutie on the side, they go into action to protect their friend from total ruin.
Today, 30+ years later the women are still best friends and hold each other’s secrets closely. Under cover of exclusivity, the girls lived with their own secrets. The Mademoiselles, an exclusive, country club group, lived by the rules of the day, while breaking as many as they could get away with. Told from the point of view of one of the members of the Red Hat Club the book bounces back and forth from the ‘60s where the members where all high school girls and members of the Mademoiselles.
If you are closer to 60 and 40, white, female and from the South, you will definitely be able to relate to The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith. I got this copy of the book autographed by the author: "For the Bookcrossers: May this have a happy journey! It will be given as a door prixe at our April Convention. Just because they went off to different high schools, no reason for us moms to separate.)Īnyhow, thanks for an enjoyable read, and a glimpse into a world surprisingly familiar and foreign all at once. I cherish my own "red hats" (though we haven't been together since the crack of dawn- we got together when our children were in school together. She is without a doubt, one of the funniest women alive, and I look forward to reading more books by her. I started reading this a day or so after hearing Haywood Smith speak. And if the novel makes you laugh, or grow nostalgic for your own band of friends, and maybe even gets you to pick up the phone and call one, that's terrific. There's a lot to be said about novels that are fun and "light" in that you don't have to ponder and reflect on every other paragraph. I read a book by this author and liked it, but still was a disgusting snob saying I liked it "for what it was", implying that there's something less about literature in this genre.
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