Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Book

Rediscover the ultimate comfort read in the classic story of friendship, loyalty and secrets set in the deep south of America in the 1930s.The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And Idgie? She was a character, all right. You never saw anyone so headstrong. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me.Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a mouth-watering tale of love, laughter and mystery. It will lift your spirits and above all it'll remind you of the secret to life: friends. ‘A richly comic, poignant narrative’ Harper Lee

Welcome to Whistle Stop Alabama. It's the thirties - summers are hot days are long and Idgie and Ruth run the Whistle Stop Cafe providing homemade barbecue good coffee and a friendly face to all who pass by. But below the surface things are not quite as they seem - Ruth has a past that only Idgie and a few others in Whistle Stop know about. And one day when a submerged truck is pulled out of the river that past they'd kept a secret for so long returns to haunt them...

A novel both funny and macabre which ties in with the film of the same name starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates.