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    The Wilde Women
    The Wilde Women
    The Wilde Women
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Wilde Women

    Written by Paula Wall

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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    The Wilde sisters dove headfirst into this world on fire with life and expectation. With hair black as midnight and eyes blazing blue, they grow into truly irresistible women. But as well as being blessed with beauty and determination, the Wilde sisters are cursed with equal tastes for mischief and bad men. And both of these appetites always lead to trouble. Love either lifts a woman up or drags her down. When a Wilde woman dies, they don’t have to dig a hole.

    On Black Friday in Five Points, Tennessee, Pearl Wilde finds her sister, Kat, in the barn wearing both her favorite shoes and her fiancé. As quick to fury as she is to passion, Pearl leaves town immediately. She returns five years later a sophisticated femme fatale, with her claws sharpened like stainless steel and a demeanor so cool that the townspeople can no longer tell if she even has sweat glands. Slowly and deliberately, Pearl begins her revenge on Kat by captivating all the men of Five Points, but all the while never forgetting the one man who had the power to break her heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 17, 2007
    ISBN9781597109468
    The Wilde Women
    Author

    Paula Wall

    Paula Wall is the author of the national bestseller The Rock Orchard, as well as two collections of short pieces, My Love Is Free . . . But the Rest of Me Don’t Come Cheap and If I Were a Man, I’d Marry Me. The latter was a semifinalist for the Thurber Prize. She currently lives outside of Nashville in a converted barn on 150 acres at the foot of the Highland Rim. Her nearest neighbor is one mile down the road, which, frankly, is a little too close for comfort. Visit her website at www.PaulaWall.com.

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    • 2/5
      A southern novel based in Tennessee which is humorous and quirky. The Wilde sisters are main characters with Kat and Pearle. Peale travels the world and moves back to open a whore house in town to draw in the wealthy. Funny how she recruits the help to renovate the house who all scared of their mothers and wives. Was not wild about the narrator; however, entertaining--not my style of reading.
    • 3/5
      Five Points, Tennessee: where the whiskey is mellow and the women are strong.Though this book is titled after several central characters, the stories center on most of the women of the town. There is a touch of Alice Hoffman's style in the writing, which lured me into thinking there would be a bit more magic in the tales, but in truth, the main magic is in the characters depicted in this small town, hit hard by the depression and Prohibition. There's pithiness, and grit there (you can tell from the very first sentence " The Lord giveth and most women piss it away.") But there also are some great characters (female and male) who evolve and age, taking their tones and tastes from the world around them. And though the individual characters and arcs drew me, I think what kept me coming back to the book (I had to put it aside for several ARCs that came in) was the way the making of whiskey was interwoven through the life of the characters and town. It was the livelihood of many, and when times became tough, the currency of life. As the author says: “A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited, or aged to perfection.” (pg. 180) Liquor can be like moonshine quick, strong, and straight to your head, or like that fine whiskey which takes on the nuances of the world around it to become something more. This is a book shaped by whiskey, Tags: set-in-the-south, taught-me-something, made-me-look-something-up, i-liked-it, will-look-for-more-by-this-author
    • 5/5
      This isn't a Point A to Point B kind of book, more like a series of vignettes about some extremely dysfunctional relationships in the small town of Five Points, Tennessee and the changes forced upon those relationships when a high brow brothel, The Five of Clubs, comes to town. The humor is first rate, even though the plot seems to swerve around on a curvy road. I loved every minute of it. Laugh out loud funny. I kept stopping to read passages to my husband.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely the best book I've ever read. Its a story about how a brothel brought a town back to life even though some people werent happy about it. There are several romances going on but its hilarious at the same time. Even though its a pretty long book I finished it in a day because I just couldnt put it down. I've been searching for another southern book like it, but I cant find one quite as good. I highly recomend this book to anyone who enjoys southern writing.