Uproariously funny and provocative, tender and life-affirming, this is Kathy Lette at her very best.
Kathy Lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an
inimitable take on serious current issues. She is one of the
pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, paving the way for
Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham.
She first achieved succ s de scandale as a teenager with the novel
Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV
mini-series. After several years as a newspaper columnist and TV
sitcom writer in America and Australia, she's written 11
international bestsellers in her characteristic witty voice,
including Mad Cows, How to Kill Your Husband - and Other Handy
Household Hints (staged by the Victorian opera) and The Boy Who
Fell to Earth. She is known for her regular appearances on BBC and
Sky news programmes. She is an ambassador for Women and Children
First, Plan International, the White Ribbon Alliance and the
NAS.
Kathy Lette lives in London with her husband and two children, and
can often be found at The Savoy drinking a cocktail named after
her. Kathy is an autodidact (a word she taught herself) but in
2010, received an honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent
University.
With the wisecracking Lette at the helm, the gags flow thick and
fast . . . But it is the thread of seriousness in the writing, the
insistence on respecting people as individuals and not labelling
them, that makes this an exceptional novel.
*Mail on Sunday*
With her usual mixture of huge heart and humour she rips the stigma
out of autism
*Ruby Wax*
Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity
at its heart. Read with relish.
*Nicole Kidman*
A novel that'll have you laughing and crying
*OK!*
Alternately hilarious and heart-breaking, I loved every minute I
spent reading this.
*The Daily Mail*
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