Big Hair and Flying Cows (Sweet Meadows Series #1) - Hardcover

Wilson, Dolores J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932815171 ISBN 13: 9781932815177

Publisher: Medallion Press, 2005

Synopsis

Bertie Byrd is unique. To say the least. She calls Sweet Meadow, Georgia, home, where she works for her father doing auto repairs. She also drives the tow-truck, although Sweet Meadow's rather colorful denizens tend to treat Bertie more like the local, free taxi service. You know, someone has to get to a doctor's appointment or pick something up at the dry cleaners. Bertie's favorite day of the week is Friday, when she leaves the wrecker with her father for the whole weekend and joins her friends at the Dew Drop Inn for a night of dancing. Her best friend, Mary Lou, sometimes fixes her up with dubious dates, although Bertie has to remind her friend not to tease her hair too high for those occasions. Like the time when they went to Carrie Sue's open house, and a ceramic cow with angel wings hanging from a ceiling fan locked its hooves into Bertie's big hair and refused to let go. She had to wear it all night, dangling chain and all. Bertie's nearly perfect life is about to take a downhill turn, however. It starts when her landlord, Pete, currently a resident in a nearby nursing home, starts showing up at her house. In his birthday suit. A very badly wrinkled birthday suit. And then she goes to her mailbox, a rubber large mouth bass, and finds a notice from the zoning commission saying she can no longer park the wrecker in her driveway. The notice is signed by George Bigham. But when she goes to the courthouse to take care of her little problem, it is only to discover George Bigham is deceased. And Mary Lou's pregnancy test just came up positive. Can it get any worse?

About this title

About the Author

Dolores J. Wilson and her husband own a body shop and towing service. She lives in Florida.

From School Library Journal

Adult/High School–Bertie drives a tow truck for her father's auto shop in the small town of Sweet Meadow, GA. All she wants is to live a normal life, to find the man of her dreams, settle down, and escape the wrath of her church's Garden Club members. That's not easy to accomplish when the town's residents view her wrecker as a taxi service and will do anything to get a ride. It's not easy when an airplane rolls over her hand, breaking it, and her brother moves in with her while he's estranged from his wife. And it's definitely not easy when the elderly owner and previous resident of her house constantly sneaks out of the nursing home to visit. If she's lucky, he's in his pajamas. After an accident with a mattress makes the national news, Bertie begins receiving threatening letters full of wacky tips from her stalker, Jack. Readers will laugh as she heads downtown to file for a permit to park her vehicle in her driveway, only to discover that the official notices forbidding her to do so were signed by a dead man. Although Wilson's debut novel can sometimes seem over-the-top, it's still a wonderful read. Bertie is a true Southern woman, able to survive at any cost, and to do it with style. Readers will relate to her as she muddles through life and ultimately finds that commitment, love, support, and trust are closer than she thought.–Erin Dennington, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA
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Edition details

• Publisher: Medallion Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1932815171
• ISBN 13: 9781932815177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326