"Quirky characters, fun plot and lots of small-town charm."
The Tiara Club
By: Beverly Brandt
Genres: Contemporary Chick Lit
Posted: June 17, 2005
The Tiara Club, a group of past beauty pageant participants, is intertwined in each others lives and closer than family. They share everything from planning Callie's wedding to getting Sierra, the newest member of the club, ready for her first beauty pageant. All is going well until Callie decides to enter her newest gift from Georgia, the Magic Chef, into a contest with the Epicurean Explorer, a national culinary television show that tests new gadgets for cooking with their world-class chef, Daniel Rogers.
Georgia is unsettled by this event as it might unmask her secret, not only to the nation, but most specifically to her Southern belle mother, Vivian, who feels a woman's most important and essential attribute is her beauty, not her brains. As the story progresses, more significant secrets are revealed than that Georgia is an inventor. Secrets like why Vivian tried to commit suicide twice when Georgia appeared to demonstrate she wasn't just a beauty queen? And why is Vivian estranged from her sister? What results is a community rocked by secrets kept and secrets revealed.
Interwoven with humor and frivolity, THE TIARA CLUB takes readers on a journey through the inner workings of a small town, the quirky characters you meet along the way and the joys and hardships that result from secrets kept. This is a fun and fast-paced summer read!
Book Summary
A novel full of Southern charm, characters, food, and the difficulties of keeping secrets in a small town
Georgia Elliot grew up in Ocean Sands, a small Gulf town full of Southern charm—and a super-efficient grapevine. So the few secrets she's managed to keep are precious, including that she's the inventor of TV's hottest new kitchen gadget, the Miracle Chef. A second-generation beauty queen, Georgia turns to women she knows she can trust to keep her secret from her controlling society Mama: the Tiara Club. All the members are veterans of the pageant circuit, but they've just admitted one woman who doesn't fit in—Sierra Riley, a Yankee who's never taped her breasts or smeared glue on her butt to wow the judges. And this year the Tiara Club is determined to help Sierra win the coveted Shrimp Queen crown. Add in an impending wedding and the Club's attempts to keep Georgia's secret, and the members of the Tiara Club have all they can do to hold on to their poise, their friendships, and their sense of humor.
by: Beverly Brandt
St. Martin's Press Griffin
July 1, 2005
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320 pages
ISBN: 0312341229
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