The long-awaited new novel by the bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is another sure-fire winner. Warm, funny, poignant and wonderfully entertaining, it conjures up a world that readers will never want to leave.
Sweeping from the gentler world of late 1940s, small-town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the 1970s, it mines golden seams of hilarity and hypocrisy, goodness and gritty determination, prejudice and despair, love and survival, in the story of a beautiful young TV interviewer, Dena Nordstrom, whose future looks full of promise, whose present is an emotional mess, and whose past is marked by mystery.
With a cast of unforgettable characters -from the comic masterpiece that is Neighbor Dorothy (broadcasting to the Midwest from her own front room in Elmwood Springs, Missouri, her home tips, good news and recipes) to the monstrosity that is Ira Wallace, TV network head, and a colourful supporting cast - Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is a funny, touching and constantly surprising novel that keeps you guessing and turning the page right up to the last.