Miss Julia speaks her mind / a novel by Ann B. Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Ann B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Widows--Fiction.

Widows.

Illegitimate children--Fiction.

Illegitimate children.

Springer, Julia (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Springer, Julia (Fictitious character).

North Carolina--Fiction.

North Carolina.

Genre:

Humorous fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

273 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, [1999]

Summary:

Miss Julia, recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow. But this perfectly practiced composure is quickly reduced when Hazel Marie unceremoniously announces her intentions: the child is Wesley Lloyd's bastard son and, since the man left her penniless, she's leaving little Lloyd in Miss Julia's care. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal -- and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence will turn her life upside down.

With razor wit and perfect Steel Magnolia poise, Miss Julia speaks her mind indeed -- about a robbery, a kidnapping, and all the other disgraceful goings-on that are precipitated by her husband's death.

ISBN:

0688167888

OCLC:

40473712