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Miss Julia Springer, a proper Southern woman of a certain age, has had enough. And she's going to tell you about it whether you like it or not.
Quietly coping with her husband's recent death and the burden of allocating the funds from his sizable estate, she receives an unexpected visit from one Hazel Marie Puckett, with a youngster in tow. Thinking this overly blond, spike-heeled woman must be selling something, she attempts to dismiss her with all the firm politeness that her Southern manners allow. Yet this perfectly practiced composure is quickly shaken when Hazel Marie unceremoniously announces her intentions: The child is Wesley Lloyd Springer's bastard son, and since the man left her penniless, she's leaving Little Lloyd in Miss Julia's care, relying on her "good Christian charity." Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself at the center of an unseemly scandal - and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence turns her life upside down. And she'll tell you, she's mad as a hornet on a rampage.
With razor-sharp wit and perfect "steel magnolia" poise, Miss Julia speaks her mind indeed. She talks about the robbery, the kidnapping, and all of the other disgraceful goings-on that were precipitated by her husband's death - and the legacies he left behind.
Even as she's driving the getaway car or lying to the police, Miss Julia always knows her own mind...despite what her pastor says - and she'll tell you about that, too.
