Dimensions
156 x 236 x 28mm
In Point Clear, Alabama, Mrs Earle Poole, known to her friends as Sookie, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps travelling with her beloved husband. Now, all she has to contend with is the blue jays in her garden and her equally formidable, overbearing mother Lenore. Then one day, a package arrives. The secrets inside knock Sookie off her feet, calling into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family and her future. Feeling like a stranger in her own life, Sookie's search for answers takes her back to the 1940s, and a Polish family called the Jurdabralinskis. Having fled the Russians, they are now the proud proprietors of the Phillips 66 filling station in Pulaski, Wisconsin. With so many men off to war, it's up to the irrepressible Fritzi and her younger sisters to keep the family business going. Soon everyone is queuing up at their All-Girl Filling Station. But once again, their peace doesn't last long, and Fritzi is thrown into an even more groundbreaking adventure as she's invited to become a pilot for the war effort. The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf , Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! and A Redbird Christmas, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new novel about two women in two different centuries who are forced to reimagine who they are, and what they are capable of.
