"Entirely satisfying, an expert balance of warmth and compassion, terrific supporting characters, a little steamy sex and just enough suspense to keep you from guessing how it will all go down." -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it.After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow.But when she arrives, Dempsey realizes that "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There's also a murderously grumpy old lady, one of Dempsey's distant relations, who has claimed squatter's rights and isn't moving out. Ever.Everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey's business, from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local paper. As if that's not bad enough, pesky FBI agents keep showing up on her doorstep, looking for information about her ex-boss.All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. Before long, what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and, ultimately, a journey that takes her to a place she never expected--back home.
Sobre o autor(a)
Andrews, Mary Kay
MARY KAY ANDREWS é autora best-seller do New York Times e já escreveu trinta livros, incluindo Destruidores de Lares. Nativa de St. Petersburg, Flórida, é graduada em jornalismo pela Universidade da Geórgia. Após catorze anos trabalhando como repórter em periódicos como The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal e The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, no qual passou os dez últimos anos de sua carreira, deixou o jornalismo em 1991 para se dedicar à ficção. Em 2006, Hissy Fit se tornou seu primeiro best-seller a integrar a lista do New York Times, seguido por mais quinze best-sellers consagrados por veículos como New York Times, USA Today e Publisher’s Weekly. Suas obras já foram publicadas em alemão, italiano, esloveno, húngaro, holandês, tcheco, japonês e português. |
| ISBN | 9780060837396 |
| Autor(a) | Andrews, Mary Kay |
| Ano de edição | 2010 |
| Páginas | 448 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 20,10 X 13,20 |