A Stitch in Time - by Kathy Lette (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

It's brains versus Botox

Lizzie's life is so perfect she has to look down to see cloud nine...until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded four-oh. For most women, turning forty is more dangerous than wearing a bikini thong in a big surf. Not Lizzie. Until, that is, she loses her job to a younger, more telegenic journalist -- and her husband to a sex goddess who keeps fit by doing step aerobics off her ego. That's when she starts to wonder about brains versus Botox. For Lizzie's sister, beauty is one of the most natural and lovely things money can buy. But must Lizzie go under the knife to win back the man she loves? The answer is as obvious as a pre-1990s nose job. This book will have you in stitches...literally!
Love, adultery, death, and a disastrous bikini wax

Review Quotes

"Dorothy Parker-esque...A wisecracking caper with hidden depths."
-- Sunday Telegraph, U.K.

"Forget all the pretenders to the chick-fic crown, the tiara belongs to Kathy Lette and she's got the novels to prove it."
-- Daily Mirror, U.K.

"Hilarious! This is one desperate housewife."
-- Janet Evanovich

"Plastic surgery is no longer an exclusively Hollywood hobby...and here in this tragicomedy of aging angst, it's revealed in its full glory."
-- Daily Mail, U.K.

About the Author

Kathy Lette first achieved literary success as a teenager with Puberty Blues. After years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer, she went on to write the novels Girls' Night Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows, Alter Ego, and Nip 'n' Tuck --all international bestsellers. She lives in London