I love reading this book. It gives one a warm homely feeling on this mild post-Christmas day in the United Kingdom. It is a book about women, familial relationships, life and food and its charm is in its wit and entertainment value.
Basically, eighty-year-old Mrs Cleo Threadgoode who resides in a nursing home, went down memory lane with plenty of tales to tell a visitor at the nursing home, Evelyn Couch, about her life in the thirties when the Whistle Stop Cafe provided good barbecues, good coffee, love and even an occasional murder.
I am glad I picked it up and highly recommend it. This is one of those books where you can safely say "They don't write books like these anymore". The narrative is richly poignant. Includes delicious southern recipes when the story comes to an end.
About the author: Fannie Flagg, born Patricia Neal, began writing and producing television specials at the age of nineteen, and went on to distinguish herself as an actress, novelist and scriptwriter.
She starred on Broadway in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1980, and appeared in films including Five Easy Pieces, Stay Hungry and Grease.
She is the author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man (1981), which spent ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987), which became a worldwide bestseller, and was made into a much loved film with a prize-winning screenplay co-written by Flagg herself.
She lives in California and in Alabama.
Flagg talks about her bestselling novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe:
Or if you prefer watching the movie (1991), here is the trailer:
Rating: 5/5
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