APRIL 2019 | COBB LIFE 121
BOOK: THE PEACOCK EMPORIUM
By Jojo Moyes
April 9
In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of
her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also
beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she agreed to
marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme, her
parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years,
rumors had begun to circulate about Athene’s affair with a
young salesman. Thirty-five years later, Suzanna Peacock is
struggling with her notorious mother’s legacy.
BOOK: SOUTHERN LADY CODE
By Helen Ellis
April 16
The bestselling author of “American Housewife” Helen
Ellis is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on
marriage and manners, thank-you notes, ghosts, gunshots,
and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art
of living as a Southern Lady. While she may have left her
home in Alabama, married a New Yorker, forgotten how to
drive and abandoned the puffy headbands of her youth,
Helen Ellis is clinging to her Southern accent like mayonnaise
to white bread, and offering readers a hilarious,
completely singular view on womanhood for both sides of
the Mason-Dixon.