The Last Original Wife CD

from pgturner

Ok...I'm a reading fool!! I read this baby in 1 day....it was that good. Started off kinda slow and boring, but I stuck with it. Read Porch Lights a couple of weeks ago and liked it so much when in search for Ms. Frank's new one. Believe me, it's a good read.

from bookchickdi

One look at the cover of Dorothea Benton Frank's The Last Original Wife, with a woman lounging on the sand near the ocean, wearing a stylish red sun hat, and you know right away this is a book that will be accompanying you to the beach. Les is the title character, a middle-aged wife and mother of...

from cyderry

Okay, who snuck in and planted listening devices in my house? I swear that somehow Ms. Frank has been listening in on comments made by my husband of 40 years and that's where she got the inspiration for this book. Not only is Wesley a bad imitation of my husband (all his faults but none of his vi...

from tututhefirst

Dorothea Benton Frank is one of my favorite authors of the genre often called "Southern Fiction."  This one did not disappoint as a work of fiction.  I won't say I liked the main characters, and I certainly didn't like the early choices made by Leslie Anne Greene Carter, the protagonist...

from hfineisen

this is an entertaining yet sometimes sobering look at the marital difficulties of Les and Was, two southern sixty somethings. Benton Frank has Charleston and Atlanta down pat and the dialogue flows. The characters of Leslie and her brother Harlan and Miss Jo are easy to love and the literary gho...