Книга: Kathy Lette «To Love, Honour And Betray: He made love and now it`s war!»

To Love, Honour And Betray: He made love and now it`s war!

Производитель: "Black Swan"

Another brilliantly funny new work from the Queen of the Quip; the author of the Sunday Times bestseller How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints). Lucy s been married for so long, her wedding certificate should be in hieroglyphics. When Jasper walks out after eighteen years, she panics. What will she do about vehicle maintenance, shifting heavy objects and Allen keys? Not to mention her rebellious teenage daughter, Tally, who blames Lucy for the marital meltdown. Low self-esteem is hereditary: you get it from your kids. While Tally s busy trying to find a loophole in her birth certificate so she can put herself up for adoption, Lucy strives to accept that a child is for life and not just for Christmas. Could teenagers be God s punishment for having sex in the first place? This is a book about what to do when you fall in love. (Wipe it off your shoes before you walk it all over the carpet.) But above all, it s a survival guide for anyone who has realized that... ISBN:9780552775694

Издательство: "Black Swan" (2010)

ISBN: 9780552775694

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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, [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010130/ai_n9662387 Media: Poms: don't you just hate them?] "The Independent" Jan 30, 2001 ] and her perceived dislike of men, [ [http://blogs.news.com.au/jackmarxlive/index.php/news/comments/lette/P60/ Kathy Lette: shut the @#$% up!] news.com.au Jack Marx Live Blog June 16, 2008] , 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.

References

External links

* [http://www.kathylette.com Kathy Lette's personal website]

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