Waking Up in Dixie: A Novel by Haywood Smith; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Laural Merlington

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage, love, and second chances.

When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her "white trash" family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's at the mercy of all his appetites and emotions. Transformed, Howe wants to be a real husband-which scares proper, repressed Elizabeth to death-and setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. The ensuing hilarious rollercoaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth and their marriage but the whole town and its hidebound institutions.

"Smith shakes up the midlife marriage renewal subgenre with the emotionally complex tale of Elizabeth Whittington." —Publishers Weekly

"Laural Merlington’s narration puts the sweet in the sweet tea.... Listeners will hear timeless truths about life’s challenges that bring laughter and tears." —AudioFile

Former real estate agent Haywood Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Red Hat Club, a publishing phenomenon celebrating women's friendships that inspired real-life "Red Hat Clubs" across the nation. Her many other novels include Ladies of the Lake, Wedding Belles, The Red Hat Club Rides Again, and Queen Bee of Mimosa Beach. Haywood lives in Georgia.

Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, Laural teaches college in her home state of Michigan.