Book description
Journalist Lizzie McPhee has always thought of beauty as a case of
mind over matter - if you don¹t mind, it doesn't matter.
But all that changes when she begins the countdown towards the big
4-0. Suddenly, she¹s comparing her butt buoyancy to that of women on
billboards and worrying about wrinkles.
But the pitter-pitter-pat of tiny crow's feet is soon the least of
Lizzie's worries. In the space of twenty four hours, she is replaced
as news anchor by a young himbo who keeps fit by doing step aerobics
off his own ego. And then she catches her surgeon husband Hugo
cheating with catty soap actress Britney Amore - a woman whose bra cup
size is bigger than her IQ.
Suddenly, Lizzie is in free fall. Can she turn back the clock, and
win back her life? Or will she discover there's a better way to grow
older gracefully?
Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a
teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a
major film and a TV mini-series. After several years as a newspaper
columnist and television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she
wrote ten international bestsellers including Mad Cows (which
was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel), How to
Kill Your Husband and Other Handy Household Hints (recently
staged by the Victorian Opera, Australia), and To Love, Honour and
Betray. Her novels have been published in fourteen 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. In 2010 she received an
honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent University.
Kathy lives in London with her husband and two children. Visit her
website at www. kathylette. com and on Twitter @KathyLette.
