The Ex-Debutante: A Novel - Softcover

Suddenly the determined lawyer is weighing the merits of beads versus crystals on ball gowns and teaching eighteen-year-olds to balance books on their heads, all the while trying to figure out how to tell her deeply Southern mother that she is engaged to a Yankee. Things go from bad to worse and soon Carlisle's afraid she'll never get back to Boston, especially when good ol' Southern boy Jack Blair shows up on the opposite side of the divorce court, making her wonder if the man is going after her mother in the proceedings, or her.

Carlisle's trip home challenges her sense of who she really is and forces her to face the secrets her family has tried to keep, well, secret. Funny and smart, poignant and true, "The Ex-Debutante "is a story about the risks one woman must take if she stands a chance of finding herself, real love, and her place in that crazy thing we call family.

"Original with fresh sparks of wit...Lee offers a story about the importance of family, unconditional love and looking beyond the false surface of perfection.
-Patti Callahan Henry, bestselling author of "Between the Tides"

""The Ex-Debutante" is fun, witty and totally "fabulous,""
-Rachel Gibson, "New York"" Times" bestselling author of "Tangled Up in You"

"Linda Francis Lee serves up heaps of delicious bon mits to split your sides. Thsi is one debutante ball to which you'll want to show up unfashionably early so as not to miss a singel page."
-Saira Rao, author of "The Chambermaid"