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'A darkly funny, pun filled satire on yummy mummy culture, with humanity at its heart'.
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All women want to kill their husbands some of the time "Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other. Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death. ut when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat. Life should begin at 40 - not with life imprisonment for killing your spouse. Jazz, stay-at-home mum and domestic goddess; Hannah, childless career woman; and Cassie, demented working mother of two are three ordinary women. Their record collections are classical, not criminal. Cassie and Hannah set out immediately to prove their best friend's innocence, uncovering betrayal, adultery, plot twists, thinner thighs and toy boys aplenty en route but will their friendship survive these ever darker revelations? Sexy, funny and wise, Kathy Lette's irresistible new novel is about women not Having It All But Doing It All. It's about how today's mother is often a married lone parent. It's about the fact that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was vacuuming. This is Kathy Lette at her brilliant best, casting her trade mark caustic eye on what goes on in the bedrooms and kitchens of ordinary married couples. A novel which will strike a cord with married women everywhere and ensure that, from now on, they all read the small print on their marriage licenses.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
How to kill your husband (and other handy household hints),
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This review is from: How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) (Paperback)
This was my first Kathy Lette book and I wasn't sure what to expect. I am only half way through but had to share how funny i found it in places. I have had to reread some of the lines again because they have really tickled me! However, I find the charachter Hannah quite annoying and cliched. Some bits have been laugh out loud funny and some have just been plain irritating. I also found some of the language choices quite bizarre and didn't fit into the story. It seemed words like "expropriated" and other longwinded words were put in just to demonstrate that she knew what they meant and didn't help with the lighthearted approach to the story.I would buy a Kathy Lette book again for the humour!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
awful,
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This review is from: How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) (Paperback)
i skim read most of this book, just to see if it got any better near the end, it didn't. either i'm getting too old for chick lit (perish the thought) or this just isn't one of the good ones. in my opinion the author tried too hard to be funny and wasn't. couldn't take to any of the characters.
2.0 out of 5 stars
One out of three ain't good,
By Jemma S "Jem" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) (Hardcover)
Oh dear. The good news: for the price of one book, you get three books rolled into one. The bad news: two of the books are rubbish!1)The writing style is very much like a stand-up comedian's act; it often veers wildly into implausible territory purely for comedy, sometimes just for a one-liner. But I have to hand it to Kathy Lette, the humour is so thick and fast it's hard not to admire the amount of effort that must have gone into it. Many of the jokes are old, some aren't funny, but some are good, and there are simply so many jokes littering the pages that if you don't like one, don't worry, there'll be another one along in a sentence or two. So, for a book of one-liners, I give 2 stars. 2)But what's the plot about? Not a lot - it's just a device to introduce the jokes, it doesn't make a lot of sense as a story, and the things you might want to read fiction for - character development, poetic descriptions, driving narrative, or whatever - are all missing. You could sum the plot up as "some people do some stuff". Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh. "Three women friends have marital troubles". Not exactly ground-breaking. So for the story itself I give zero stars. 3)Ever read the Polly Filler column in Private Eye? Polly Filler is an annoying lazy 'working mother' who doesn't do much work, and doesn't have to be much of a mother either, because she's got an au pair, cleaner, etc etc. But that doesn't stop her from praising working mothers (mainly herself) to the heavens, while slagging off everyone else. The central character in this book, Cassie, is so much like Polly Filler that there is just nothing nice about her - but, get this - you're supposed to love this woman! She's pure evil, and the reader is expected to admire her for juggling work, child-rearing and house-keeping. Halfway through the book, I started to wonder if Lette was being subversive, and while pretending to praise these women, was actually highlighting how nasty they are. Cassie runs out of petrol, presumably because she's too busy to have time to check the fuel gauge. Who does she blame? Her husband! (Sneakily, she hasn't actually run out of petrol at all, the low-fuel light has come on, but she's so stupid she thinks it means she's run out.) She crashes her car into another and demolishes it, while driving the wrong way down a one-way street. Whose fault is it? Yep, her husband's again, because he persuaded her to have a dog in the car, and it bit her. Episodes like this made me hope that Lette was cleverly starting off with a yummy-mummy story and slowly inverting it to show how selfish and self-centred these witches are. But I hoped in vain; Lette isn't that sort of writer, and this book isn't that smart. So, for all the dismal, offensive, mind-bogglingly sexist working-mother tripe, I give another zero stars. To sum up- Check it out if you're a stand-up comedian looking for some one-liners. You'll love it if you're one of those working mothers who thinks you achieve the impossible on a daily basis, even though you're always in the wine bar by eight o'clock while the nanny puts the kids to bed. Everyone else - steer clear.
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