Anyway, enough about why I'm reading it, what about the book itself. It's written by the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistleshop Cafe, which I haven't read but which has been made into a really lovely film. You can see a certain similarity between the two, with the cutting backwards and forwards between a modern life o a TV presenter in New York (in the 70s) and the life of her parents in backwoods southern Missouri in the late 40s, which snapshots from all sorts of times inbetween. It's a story about finding yourself, and finding you're not quite who you thought you were. It's got a bit of a love story. It's full of friends and family caring for each other. It's very very sweet. Put like that it sounds almost sickening, but there's a thread of mystery running through the book too, and a look at the cutthroat world of the start of tabloid-style TV news which is rather bleak, and you just can't help but like most of the characters. And my mum was right, definitely a feel-good book. With a happy ending and all. And just what I felt like at the moment.
4: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl: Fannie Flagg: ISBN 0-099-28855-9
Anyway, enough about why I'm reading it, what about the book itself. It's written by the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistleshop Cafe, which I haven't read but which has been made into a really lovely film. You can see a certain similarity between the two, with the cutting backwards and forwards between a modern life o a TV presenter in New York (in the 70s) and the life of her parents in backwoods southern Missouri in the late 40s, which snapshots from all sorts of times inbetween. It's a story about finding yourself, and finding you're not quite who you thought you were. It's got a bit of a love story. It's full of friends and family caring for each other. It's very very sweet. Put like that it sounds almost sickening, but there's a thread of mystery running through the book too, and a look at the cutthroat world of the start of tabloid-style TV news which is rather bleak, and you just can't help but like most of the characters. And my mum was right, definitely a feel-good book. With a happy ending and all. And just what I felt like at the moment.
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