Ain't Nothin' as Sweet as My Baby: The Story of Hank Williams' Lost Daughter

by Jett Williams

Book Overview

Presents the surprising story of the woman who, for her first twenty-one years, lived as Cathy Deupree, and who then discovered that she was the child of country music great Hank Williams. Reprint. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151040508
• ISBN13: 9780151040506
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Amazing story!!!

I just happened to find the book once before in a discount bookstore. The story interested me, and so I picked up the book. What a story this girl has to tell. I recently saw a play on the life of Hank Williams, and decided I needed to read it again. It's an amazing story about this girl who was adopted, and did not learn her true identity until almost 30 years later. It's also an amazing story of all the hurdles that she had to go through to PROVE that she was Hank's daughter. She is a fighter, that girl. [...] A great book.

Very Heartbreaking at Times but Thankfully Triumphant at the End

Very well written story about how they tried to destroy a life twice. First, her biological family tried to send her into oblivion via adoption thereby possibly she might never have known her real father and legacy. Then her adoptive mother disinherited which was a double whammy she sure didn't need when her adoptive father certainly intended to take care of her just like her biological father had intended to. But Jett Williams was able to overcome it with the help of a lawyer who believed in her. Because without that lawyer, whom she married, she never would have been able to claim her legacy.

FACT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION...

Jett Williams' story is the sort of tale for soap opera fodder, only better, because it's based on true life. This book has everything...fame, sex, sabotage, covertness, secrets, lies, legal battles...and all within the same family. It's sad to know that the family of such an inspiring talent as Hank Williams, Sr., could stoop to such cruelty and greed...and even more amazing that Jett was able to rise above it all, claim her heritage and be recognized for her own talent. She should be a spokesperson for open adoption records everywhere! Her struggle is an inspiration to adoptees everywhere who hope for a biological reconnection.