How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) - Couverture souple

'HOW TO KILL YOUR HUSBAND (AND OTHER HAND HOUSEHOLD HINTS) is the fast talking, heart-stoppingly paced and pun-tastic culmination of all that . . . Lette's writing is as taut as Angelina Jolie's inner thigh and really funny . . . in her customary breezy fashion, Lette crystallises all the pitfalls facing the modern working couple: work tensions and, more darkly, what becomes of two people who have lost all respect for each other. But what makes Lette such a pro is that, as well as insight, she provides her reader with that rarest of things: a good plot. Fundamentally, this is a well constructed, tightly written thriller . . . it's sold to the core. Like a good marriage, really' Sarah Vine THE TIMES
'With a cast of nymphomaniac new-ages, hard-boiled lawyers and power-crazed pedagogues, there's never a doubt that this will be entertaining. Lette, bestselling author of NIP 'N' TUCK, knows how to pace a plot. The result is a darkly funny, pun-filled satire on yummy-mummy culture, with humanity at its heart' DAILY MAIL
'Kathy Lette is the grande dame of naughty-but-nice chick lit' Observer 4/2
'Kathy Lette is a fantastic writer: she's funny, sharp and writes chick-lit with bite - in this case shark bite' Heat 6/2
‘Female friendship is what Lette does best... her humour is based on sharp observation of real life... A hilarious dissection of marriage and its discontents’
The Times 10/02

All women want to kill their husbands some of the time "Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other. Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death.
ut when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat. Life should begin at 40 - not with life imprisonment for killing your spouse.
Jazz, stay-at-home mum and domestic goddess; Hannah, childless career woman; and Cassie, demented working mother of two are three ordinary women. Their record collections are classical, not criminal. Cassie and Hannah set out immediately to prove their best friend's innocence, uncovering betrayal, adultery, plot twists, thinner thighs and toy boys aplenty en route but will their friendship survive these ever darker revelations?
Sexy, funny and wise, Kathy Lette's irresistible new novel is about women not Having It All But Doing It All. It's about how today's mother is often a married lone parent. It's about the fact that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was vacuuming. This is Kathy Lette at her brilliant best, casting her trade mark caustic eye on what goes on in the bedrooms and kitchens of ordinary married couples. A novel which will strike a cord with married women everywhere and ensure that, from now on, they all read the small print on their marriage licenses.