Hrt: Husband Replacement Therapy - by Kathy Lette (Paperback)

About the Book

An outrageously funny, heartbreaking read - when Ruby gets a terminal diagnosis on the brink of her 50th birthday, she decides to start living instead of complying...

Book Synopsis

An outrageously funny, heartbreaking read - when Ruby finds out she has cancer on the brink of her 50th birthday, she decides to start living instead of complying...

Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family and colleagues, which is why they've all turned up to celebrate her 50th birthday.

But after too many glasses of champers, Ruby takes her moment in the spotlight to reveal what she really thinks of every one of them. She accuses her husband of having an affair and lambasts her mother for a lifetime of playing her three daughters against each other - it's blisteringly brutal.

As the stunned gathering gawks at Ruby, the birthday girl reveals that she has terminal cancer, and has cashed in her life savings to take her two estranged sisters cruising into the sunset for a dose of HRT - Husband Replacement Therapy. But is Ruby being courageous or ruthlessly selfish?

Praise for Kathy Lette:
'Fabulous, fast-paced, funny & unapologetically female. Nobody does it better.' DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, THE GUILTY FEMINIST
'Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity at its heart. Read with relish.' NICOLE KIDMAN
'Kathy Lette can turn from raunchy farce to the most tender emotion in a trice.' STEPHEN FRY

Review Quotes

"We devoured Kathy's newy over a chardonnay in one sitting! She's the thinking lady's hornbag." --Kath and Kim

"Feminist social satire. Lette's swingeing irreverence still has the juice to make you laugh out loud." --Cameron Woodhead, The Age

"A laugh-a-minute, light-hearted look at what's truly important in life" --Sunday Post / Press & Journal / Courier (Dundee)

About the Author

Kathy Lette first achieved success as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. Since then, her novels have been published in seventeen languages around the world. Kathy appears regularly as a guest on the BBC and Sky News. She is also an ambassador for Women and Children First, Plan International and the White Ribbon Alliance. In 2004 she was the London Savoy Hotel's Writer in Residence where a cocktail named after her can still be ordered. Kathy is an autodidact (a word she obviously taught herself) but in 2010, received an honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent University. Kathy lives in London with her husband and two children. She cites her career highlights as once teaching Stephen Fry a word, Salman Rushdie, the limbo and scripting Julian Assange's cameo in the Simpsons 500th episode.