PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- If you need a bit of light entertainment laced with wordplay and improbable but delicious revenge fantasies, this is for you! Three successful women, onetime university friends who haven't seen each other in years, are brought together by a fourth member of their long-ago youthful flirtation with rock music. But Jo isn't Josephine anymore - since being bumped from the special effects job she was brilliant at only because of her gender, she has masqueraded as Joe, reclaimed her old job and been promoted and paid better ever since. The other three - Penny, a hardhitting journalist, Cressy the gorgeous once-iconic actress married to her university human-rights-lawyer sweetheart, Matilda, the ex-pat Australian novelist - are aghast and intrigued, but think that what happened to Jo won't happen to them. So when it does, they take Jo's advice and plot revenge... all sorts of fun and games and an enjoyable and wicked read! Lindy
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.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- If you need a bit of light entertainment laced with wordplay and improbable but delicious revenge fantasies, this is for you! Three successful women, onetime university friends who haven't seen each other in years, are brought together by a fourth member of their long-ago youthful flirtation with rock music. But Jo isn't Josephine anymore - since being bumped from the special effects job she was brilliant at only because of her gender, she has masqueraded as Joe, reclaimed her old job and been promoted and paid better ever since. The other three - Penny, a hardhitting journalist, Cressy the gorgeous once-iconic actress married to her university human-rights-lawyer sweetheart, Matilda, the ex-pat Australian novelist - are aghast and intrigued, but think that what happened to Jo won't happen to them. So when it does, they take Jo's advice and plot revenge... all sorts of fun and games and an enjoyable and wicked read! Lindy
"Fast moving and frothing with the fun kind of female fury -- Jo Brand Like champagne with a pie chaser. Sparkling and surprisingly satisfying -- Penny Smith As always, she's witty and gritty and surprises at every turn. ""Nine to Five"" meets the ""First Wives Club"" in this gripping story of revenge -- Ruby Wax Kathy Lette's razzle-dazzle charm, humour and versatility sometimes obscure the seriously impressive achievement of this girl from the Shire: For fifty years now, she has articulated - with outrageous candour and an infallibly observant eye - the best and worst bits of being female. The Revenge Club is erotic fan fiction for the peri-menopausal. But amid all the hilarity and blood-Letteing (see what I did there?) there beats a solid reminder that female friendships are the love affairs that never dim. -- Annabel Crabb"
