Yankee Doodle Dixie by Lisa Patton

LeeLee Satterfield follows her Husband, Baker, to Vermont, cause good southern girls stick by their man, to open The Peach Blossom Inn.  After making The Peach Blossom Inn a huge success, her husband leaves her and their two young girls for his mistress.  LeeLee decides to sell the Inn and move back home to Memphis.  When she gets back to Memphis she finds out life is not the same as when she left.

Kissie, Alice, Mary Jule, and Virginia are all in the Memphis area to help and support LeeLee as she has to learn how to be a single mother and has to deal with the town gossips.  She realizes with her best friends by her side anything can be done.  LeeLee manages to find a place to live and a job and still have great fun with her friends and family.

LeeLee is the true heroine in this novel.  She shows her bravery first by leaving all that is familiar to her and following her husband to Vermont to start a new business in a new town with new friends.  When her marriage fails, her bravery shows again, she decides she has to take her children and move back home, where she has no home and no job, but plenty of good friends to help her find her way.

Yankee Doodle Dixie truly has me cheering for LeeLee and her girls.  I loved that her second mother, Kissie, Took her in and helped her with the girls with no questions asked.  The fact that her girlfriends never gave her any grief about her lives decision made them be the kind of friends every girl needs.

I won’t give away the ending but it was perfect.  Lisa Patton wrote an amazing novel that made me smile and laugh.  The southern feel to Yankee Doodle Dixie made it a perfect sunny day read.  I cannot wait for more stories about LeeLee.

Reviewed by Charlotte