Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small-town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Fannie Flagg new novel mines golden seams of goodness and gritty determination, prejudice and despair, love and survival, in the story of a young TV interviewer, Dena Nordstrom, whose future looks full of premise, whose present is an emotional mess, and whose past is marked by mystery.

With a cast of unforgettable characters, from the comic masterpiece that is Neighbor Dorothy (broadcasting home tips and good news to the midwest from her own front room) to the monstrosity that is Ira Wallace, TV network head - Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is a funny, constantly surprising novel that keeps you guessing and turning the page right up to the last.