Book description
Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist
Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her
husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at
the day care centre where she works, two grown daughters, and two
ailing, wayward parents. It's no wonder she can't find time to take care
of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some
other woman may be taking care of him...
Then it comes: the announcement of her twenty-five-year college reunion
in twelve months' time, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. It
sets Ada thinking about the thrills of young love lost, and the hundred
or so pounds gained since her college days, and she decides it's high
time to change her body, and her life. So she starts laying down some
rules. The first rule is: Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been
Doing. And so begins her unforgettable journey on the way to less weight
and more love...
For anyone who has ever found themselves at a crossroads, with one hand
in their pocket and the other in the cookie jar, Ada's Rules
is a warm, funny and soulfully wise novel about falling back in love
with the life you have. It's a delight to read about someone so fully
human. In Ada Howard, Randall has pulled off the tough trick of creating
a truly relatable, deliciously complicated character Alice Randall was
born in Detroit, grew up in Washington, D. C., and graduated from
Harvard. She is the author of New York Times
bestseller The Wind Done Gone
, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
, and Rebel Yell
. She is also an award-winning songwriter, and the first black woman in
history to write a number one country song. Randall is currently
Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville with
her husband. She recently lost over fifty pounds following her own
rules.
