Mailbox Monday February 14, 2011

In February, Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Laura of Library of Clean Reads.





Last week I received The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French. The blurb on the front cover by Lee Smith says: "If you liked the film Little Miss Sunshine, you'll abslutely love this novel..." Well, I did enjoy that movie and this book looks just like my sort of entertainment. This novel has quite an amusing book trailer.

The description of this book is taken from Random House's website:

Seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs come hell or high water. In 1953, he gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study that had horrible consequences.

Marylou has been plotting her revenge for fifty years. When she accidentally discovers his whereabouts in Florida, her plans finally snap into action. She high tails it to hot and humid Tallahassee, moves in down the block from where a now senile Spriggs lives with his daughter’s family, and begins the tricky work of insinuating herself into their lives. But she has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she is stum­bling into.

Before the novel is through, someone will be kidnapped, an unlikely couple will get engaged, someone will nearly die from eating a pineapple upside-down cake laced with anti-freeze, and that’s not all . . .

Told from the varied perspectives of an incredible cast of endearing oddball characters and written with the flair of a native Floridian, this dark comedy does not disappoint.