How To Kill Your Husband: (And Other Handy Household Hints) by Kathy Lette, ISBN 9780743468763

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What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?

A widow.

Marriage can be murder. Quite literally, for Jazz Jardine -- stay-at-home mum and now, unexpectedly, the prime suspect in her husband's killing. He's been shot and she's been shut-up with no chance of bail, so it's up to her two best friends -- childless career woman Hannah and demented working mum Cassie -- to clear her name.

With Jazz incacerated, Cassie arrives to explain to her lawyer everything that has led to this point. A flashback draws us into a twisting, hilarious plot bringing together betrayal, adultery, thinner thighs and toy-boys. Oh, and murder.

Jazz's husband David Studlands-Studz -- a dashing and successful surgeon, has been neglecting his wife but apparently not neglecting anyone else's; she finds a half-used packet of Viagra despite the fact they haven't slept together in months. In order to investigate, Jazz fakes a holiday and begins to follow Studz out and about. It soon becomes apparent things are not what they seem...

At the same time, Cassie is dissatisfied with her own Mr Wrong, who seems to consider golf and air guitar practical alternatives to housework. She's up for the Assistant Head position at her school, but in between being a manic mother, harangued housewife and washed-out workaholic, there doesn't seem much chance of getting in. Especially when her number one rival's biggest dilemma is which au pair to take on holiday. It's not so much Having It All as Doing It All -- and it's driving her out of her mind...

And Hannah? She's fairing no better. Absorbed in her career and a self-confessed workaholic, everyone around her can see she's hurtling towards a mid-life crisis. When it finally arrives, it's a little more...controversial than they would have hoped: she's taken on a toy-boy! Hannah's always wanted a child and now she's having one...every night! Will her new seventeen-year old friend affect her ability to give Jazz a helping hand, particularly considering said boy and Jazz are related?

It's up to Cassie and Hannah to fight for Jazz, but can they really help out their friend? Will they keep their sanity? And will they ever learn that when their marriage vows say 'Til Death Do Us Part', it's not some sort of hint?

A diabolically funny new novel from Kathy Lette, smash hit author of Mad Cows, Nip 'n' Tuck and Dead Sexy.

RRP: $19.99
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About the Author: Kathy Lette

Kathy Lette (born 11 November 1958) is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books.

Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor (with friend Gabrielle Carey) of Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls attempting to improve their social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" of surfers. The book was made into a successful movie in 1981.

As an adult, Lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with Girls' Night Out in 1988 and has since written several more successful novels and plays, including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows in 1996 (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel) and Dead Sexy.

Despite her stereotyping of English people as condescending and unfriendly, and her perceived dislike of men,, Lette lives in London and is married to a fellow Australian expatriate, the "silk", television host and author Geoffrey Robertson QC, whom she first met when appearing on his Hypotheticals panel debate show. They have two children, Julius and Georgina. She was earlier married to Kim Williams. now Chief Executive Officer of Foxtel, while he was CEO of the Australian Film Commission.

In 2007, Lette joined Sunrise as a London correspondent a part of the Global Notebook; she kept this position until mid 2007.

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