A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

THE DAIRY QUEEN

Author: Allison Rushby ISBN: 0373895747 3/2006 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: RED DRESS INK

The Dairy Queen by Allison Rushby

It's all about milking it... when you're The Dairy Queen

Want to know what I, said queen, wish for?

  • World peace.
  • A positive pregnancy test for my sister.
  • A best friend who suffers momentary sanity.
  • A lifetime supply of "treaties" for my dog.
  • And something---anything-----that would erase this capital L from my forehead.

Not necessarily in that order.

Dicey doesn't remember the exact moment her world went splashing counterclockwise down the toilets of Australia. But it must have been somewhere between breaking up with her husband during an anniversary dinner, losing her pajama empire and being evicted from her beautiful house. Yet now that it's just her, a bottle of red and a bucket of pistachios (yum, dinner), is there anything beyond rock bottom?

Yes. It's called Moo.

Dicey knows running home to the cow-obsessed town with her sister, best friend and hulking Irish wolfhound is madness. But when the girls are soon overwhelmed, er, embraced by the locals, Dicey realizes the quiet anonymity she was planning on milking won't be possible. Especially when her sour city life suddenly invades and she discovers going home isn't the same thing as giving up.

Not even close.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

THE DAIRY QUEEN turns out to be one of my favorite books despite the fact that it starts out so horribly. You know how you go to the bookstore and you select a book with an attractive cover and you read the blurb and you think, hmmm...this looks interesting, and then you read the first page to get a feel for the writing?

I would've have never read this book. Immorality and the F-word predominates the first part of the story. It's offensive.

Yet...

Subtly the writing changes and the story becomes an extremely charming tale of Dicey winning her husband again. The ending is gloriously satisfying.

Cynthia Whitten

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