Love and Mrs. Sargent

Mrs. Richard Sargent—respected widow, envied socialite, the most widely-read advice columnist in America, the nicest and most conservative woman around—is such a success that not only is she in talks for her own television show, but she's soon to claim the jewel of her crown, the coveted Mother of the Year award. When a muckraking reporter from a liberal magazine spends several days in her household, however, he discovers that Mrs. Sargent's two adult children would prefer any mother other than their own—and when the reporter moves into Mrs. Sargent's bedroom, he discovers she's anything but respectable. Love & Mrs. Sargent is the last of four novels Patrick Dennis wrote under his other pseudonym of Virginia Rowans.