An irresistible Southern charmer about small-town gossip, second-chance romance, strange weather, and ballroom dancing in the most unlikely places.
Laurie Lepanto is on the horns of a dilemma. Her favorite market, the Piggly Wiggly, of Second Creek, Mississippi, is on the verge of closing its doors. Over the years, the Piggly Wiggly has been more than a supermarket?it's been a community center and town hall.
With the help of the "Nitwitts," a formidable array of the town's most influential widows, and the town's most eligible silver fox, Powell Hampton, a sixtysomething widower and former ballroom dance instructor, Laurie devises a plan. For two hours a week, Powell will waltz-or fox-trot or tango-at the Piggly Wiggly with Second Creek's ladies while the salesclerks do their shopping for them. In a place like Second Creek, where everyone knows everyone, waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly soon becomes the town's most festive event.
In this warmhearted little Southern novel the Piggly Wiggly is threatened by a new mega-market. A group of women from the town, the "Nitwits," come up with a plan to increase Piggly Wiggly business by offering the town's ladies a few hours of dancing in the aisles with the local eligible bachelor while clerks do their shopping. The plan fails, but all is not lost--love wins in the end. Clarinda Ross tries to infuse the characters with their own brand of Southern charm, but they all end up sounding pretty much the same. And the cotton candy dialogue finally becomes so cloyingly sweet that it's enough to make your teeth ache. M.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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