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Novel by Rebecca Wells
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Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood is a 1996 novel written by Rebecca Wells. It follows the novel Little Altars Everywhere. In 2005, Wells wrote Ya Yas in Bloom and then The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood tells the story of the downward spiraling mother daughter relationship of Vivian Walker and Siddalee Walker.

Wells spent four years writing the novel. She worked mostly in the early morning. Wells stated the novel had little resemblance to her own life and the only autobiographical element was the name of a dog included in the story.

When Siddalee and Vivi Walker, an utterly original mother daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap dancing child abuser," the fall out is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theatre director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend Connor McGill. But Vivi's intrepid gang of life long girlfriends, the Ya Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.

Director Callie Khouri adapted Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood into a film in 2002. This became Rebecca Wells' first novel to be adapted into a film. Sandra Bullock (Sidda) and Ellen Burstyn (Vivi) starred as the two main characters of the film as well as James Garner (Big Shep) and Maggie Smith (Caro).

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. A number of critics praised the book; The Washington Post stated that the book is "A very entertaining and ultimately deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between a mother and a daughter."

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2000. Award panel member Bonnie Greer praised the book's emotional impact. But poet Fiona Pitt Kethley criticized the decision.