Waking Up in Dixie: A Novel

Haywood Smith

Oct 2010 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Laural Merlington

About this audiobook

When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her "white trash" family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's at the mercy of all his appetites and emotions. Transformed, Howe wants to be a real husband-which scares proper, repressed Elizabeth to death-and setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. The ensuing hilarious rollercoaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth and their marriage but the whole town and its hidebound institutions.

About the author

Haywood Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Red Hat Club-a publishing phenomenon celebrating women's friendships that inspired real-life "Red Hat Clubs" across the nation-Ladies of the Lake, and Queen Bee of Mimosa Beach.

Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including one for Never Say Die by Susan Jacoby.