The Red Hat Club

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Summary: "Warning"
Review: "When I'm an old woman, I shall wear a purple dress with a red hat..." Haywood Smith, in her book THE RED HAT CLUB, captures the spirit of the young southern "Mademoiselle" in the 60's. The Mademoiselles evolve into "Red Hats" in this delightful and entertaining book. I couldn't put it down. I laughed aloud at the authors witty descriptions and wiped away my own bittersweet "memories" as they flooded down my cheeks. I'm eager to read QUEEN BEE OF MIMOSA BRANCH, also by Haywood Smith and her new book that will be out in 2004, LADIES OF THE LAKE.

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Summary: Best book I've read in a LONG time!!
Review: A real page turner that leaves you longing to rekindle all those childhood friendships long since forgotten! A great girl power book! I can't wait for the next installment!

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Summary: WOW, what a fun read!
Review: Amazing to find a woman of our maturity still having this much fun. Plus, she is just a very good writer and has a way with putting together that southern phrace that just tickles your senses. Like the typical New Englander of other regional writer, Ms. Smith gets the southern woman down to a tee. just fun and good sense of what this Red Hat business is all about...friendship, conspiracy and trust in the southern way. i love this book. lot's of fun to read.

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Summary: A fabulous audio drive book!!!
Review: I love to read while I drive.... and this book kept me happily stuck on the Interstate for hours. How could anyone know I has having the time of my life as I listened to the ups and downs of the Red Hat Club. ... while they were stuck in traffic!!! This book made me want to rush out and buy a red hat of my own!
I found this book quite by accident and having grown up in the Northwest I had no idea what a delight I was in for. I have since recommended this book to all of my friends and have moved on to "The Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch". Only the heat keeps me from relocating to the south! Hugs!

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Summary: fun summer read
Review: I read this book after I finished a more serious piece of literature and found it to be fun, and humerous. It's an easy and fast read if you are looking for a good summer book. The characters and plot are not necessarily realistic but who wants realistic!? I enjoyed the book and think most women would get a kick out of it too.

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Summary: The Red Hat Club
Review: I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up this book. If I ever catch my husband cheating on me, I want these ladies by my side. I was drawn in from the first page. It was fun to read these ladies in action. I can't wait to continue the story.

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Summary: fun summer read
Review: The characters in this book seem more like children than grown women. they govern their friendships with child like rules and have cutsy little names like Su Su. and Brad just an awlful book. Heywood uses baby terms like gabberflasted. I was just bored with the whole predictable story line.

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Summary: The power of women's friendship!!!
Review: THE RED HAT CLUB is an amazing book that takes you through the lives of five women (who met in high school) and how they stick together through marriage troubles, kids, abusive husbands, cheating men, going-nowhere jobs, and middle age. They belong to a group called THE RED HAT CLUB where they where purple suits and red hats and meet for lunch once a month (this club is a real thing across America). I love the way the women band together to bring justice to a cheating husband, and how another has to face the one man she still fantasizes about (not her husband!) after all these years. It's just such a treat to read a book about the bonds of female friendship. Get this book and get one for your best friend, too!

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Summary: This is NOT your RED HAT SOCIETY!
Review: This book really has little to do with the Red Hat Society, fortunately. My group of Red Hatters is quite a bit more mature than this group of 50-somethings stuck in their teen years. There is a lot of mediocre revenge from shallow, stuck up "socialites." The word(s) Y'ALL is used ad nauseum, sometimes more than once in the same sentence.
...a waste of time as far as I was concerned...

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Ths book had me in stiches and I couldn't put it down. Sent it to my friend who loved it so much she sent it to her daughter.
After reading the book I wanted to be "like the ladies in the book" and promptly joined the Red Hat Society.
Great way to enjoy life and meet wonderful fun-loving women!
Wish I could buy a copy of this book for every woman I know over 50!