





Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)
Florence King (author), Sandi Toksvig (author of introduction)
£9.99
Paperback
288 Pages
Published: 01/06/2006
Published: 01/06/2006
Granny worked so hard at my rearing. She was a frustrated ladysmith and I was her last chance...This is the story of my years on her anvil. Whether she succeeded in making a lady out of me is for you to decide, but I will say one thing in my own favour before we begin. No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street.' When Florence King was born, her Granny, a would-be Virginia grande dame, moved in. 'Anybody could have a family,' writes Miss King. 'She wanted a race all to herself.' Granny's dream of raising the perfect Southern belle failed dismally with her own daughter, a chain-smoking, baseball-playing tomboy given to wild expletives. Florence is Granny's last hope ...
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844081288
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 220 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Ought to be printed with a mechanism for turning down the volume of the reader . . . Outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny -- Sandi Toksvig
I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it -- Jeanette Winterson
One of the funniest writers around -- Gerald Durrell
The damndest adventures in autobiography hilarity to come down the pike in recent years . . . She is a Bombeck with bite, a female Art Bushwald with Southern sass, an A-one original American humorist down to her wicked, wicked bones -- Susan Brownmiller
An outrageous commentator on men, women, and other sources of amusement, particularly the Southern variety . . . Florence King never loses her warmth, her humor, or her ability to be delighted by life's inherent contradictions * Chicago Sun Times *
Witty, intelligent, freewheeling . . . Surely the author told these stories before she wrote them, stretching and perfecting them with each telling, mining them for humor * Newsday *
Ought to be printed with a mechanism for turning down the volume of the reader . . . Outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny * Sandi Toksvig *
I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it * Jeanette Winterson *
Gerald Durrell * 'One of the funniest writers around' *
I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it -- Jeanette Winterson
One of the funniest writers around -- Gerald Durrell
The damndest adventures in autobiography hilarity to come down the pike in recent years . . . She is a Bombeck with bite, a female Art Bushwald with Southern sass, an A-one original American humorist down to her wicked, wicked bones -- Susan Brownmiller
An outrageous commentator on men, women, and other sources of amusement, particularly the Southern variety . . . Florence King never loses her warmth, her humor, or her ability to be delighted by life's inherent contradictions * Chicago Sun Times *
Witty, intelligent, freewheeling . . . Surely the author told these stories before she wrote them, stretching and perfecting them with each telling, mining them for humor * Newsday *
Ought to be printed with a mechanism for turning down the volume of the reader . . . Outrageous and laugh-out-loud funny * Sandi Toksvig *
I've never read so many perfect one-liners . . . This book is dynamite. Don't miss it * Jeanette Winterson *
Gerald Durrell * 'One of the funniest writers around' *
You may also be interested in...
Please sign in to write a review
Sign In / Register
Not registered? CREATE AN ACCOUNTCREATE A plus ACCOUNT
Sign In
Download the Waterstones App
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?
Click & Collect
Reserve online, pay on collection
Thank you for your reservation
Your order is now being processed and we have sent a confirmation email to you at
When will my order be ready to collect?
Following the initial email, you will be contacted by the shop to confirm that your item is available for collection.
Call us on or send us an email at
Unfortunately there has been a problem with your order
Please try again or alternatively you can contact your chosen shop on or send us an email at