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The Ex-Debutante

by Linda Francis Lee
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When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing left her native Texas for a new life in Boston, she felt like she'd finally found liberation. Until the day she gets an urgent call from her mother, reporting that: One, the Symphony Association Debutante Ball, which Carlisle's family sponsors, is about to be called off; Two, her mother's divorce has the whole town talking; And three, the family's good name is at stake and Carlisle is the only one who can fix it all. So Carlisle takes a leave of absence from her law firm and goes to Texas to help. Her fiancee has no idea that she's an heiress--or about to come face to face once more with the true love of her life. Her trip home challenges Carlisle's sense of herself and brings the pieces of her past together, so that when she finally re-meets the man of her dreams, she's in a perfect place to tempt fate.

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  • Release date

    April 1, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792753179
      • File size: 317754 KB
      • Duration: 11:01:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 10, 2007
      The latest tongue-in-cheek blusher from Lee (after The Devil in the Junior League
      ) finds that coming out in Willow Creek, Tex., society has its snags. At her own debut, Carlisle Wainwright Cushing failed to execute the Texas Dip—“a deep full curtsy where a girl sinks so low that she touches her forehead to her skirt”—properly. Now almost 30 and a successful Boston divorce attorney, Carlisle is summoned home to represent her diva mom Ridgely in her latest divorce. Carlisle is also asked to rescue the troubled Hundredth Annual Willow Creek Symphony Association Debutante Ball, and to teach seven iffy debs-to-be the Texas Dip. But the attorney representing her mother’s soon-to-be-ex is Carlisle’s old heart-throb, the former bad boy Jack Blair—who is the brother of the ultra rich Hunter Blair, and father to India, a spoiled deb-to-be. Can Carlisle deal with all the challenges while allowing her renewed feelings for Jack to “come out”? Lee depicts Carlisle and the antiquated debutante tradition with equal parts chagrin and tenderness.

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.