Lizzie, 39, has a successful career as a TV news anchorperson, a handsome husband and two small children. Life seems pretty perfect, until her husband falls for a beautiful Texan model and decides to join a clinic that specializes in plastic surgery. How will Lizzie get her husband back?
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Kathy Lette first achieved succes de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, now a major motion picture. After several years as a singer in a rock band and newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York, and a television sitcom writer for Columbia pictures in Los Angeles, she wrote Girls' Night Out (1988). The Liama Parlour (1991), Foetal Attraction (1993), Mad Cows (1996) and Altar Ego (1998), which have all become international bestsellers. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
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This book is so funny! It's about a woman (Elizabeth/Lizzie) who is fast approaching her 40's and goes through some major crises in her life. She is obsessed that her husband starts having an affair so tries the tactic of following her beautiful sister in becoming more refined in her appearance (to say the least!). She does discover that her husband, Hugo is having an affair and I was as shocked as Lizzie was when she finds out who. Even though I am no where near the 40 age mark (yet) I can relate to what has been written. It's all about women surviving in a mens world and having to use their looks to get anywhere. Kathy Lette has made a great come back and this book is a must read!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book very easy to read - good for a holiday, and with some excellent one-liners. But as far as the plot went, there was very little, and the ending could almost be predicted from the first chapter. Amusing, but not stimulating, challenging or exciting.
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By Nicola
Format:Paperback
To begin with I wasn't sure what I thought about this book. It's true that I found this book surprisingly easy to read, despite the fact that Kathy Lette sometimes tries a little too hard to be funny and the metaphors are constantly a little too drawn out and rambling.
I realise this book is entirely fictional, but even so, there were a couple of things that strained against the bonds of even my reality. For example:
1. If you had a husband like Hugo McPhee you would, unequivocally, divorce him, no questions asked, no second thoughts, you just would, not opt for every type of plastic surgery under the sun to try and win him back;
2. If someone spoke to you like Lizzie McPhee's nemesis, Britney Armore, every other page should technically have been a flat out brawl with fists a-flying and murders abound. No one, no matter how down trodden, would put up with it. But apparently Lizzie does. I think the odd good argument between these two would have been amusing and uplifting for Lizzie's character.
BUT - as the story nears its conclusion (especially the scene where Lizzie's at work and has her moment of Enlightenment in front of the TV cameras), I found I was pleased to have persevered with it. I was a little disappointed with the ending because it was pretty obvious what was going to happen quite early on in the book. This book is chick lit, but as far as chick lit goes, it's worth a read if you're after something light hearted and easy.
I realise this book is entirely fictional, but even so, there were a couple of things that strained against the bonds of even my reality. For example:
1. If you had a husband like Hugo McPhee you would, unequivocally, divorce him, no questions asked, no second thoughts, you just would, not opt for every type of plastic surgery under the sun to try and win him back;
2. If someone spoke to you like Lizzie McPhee's nemesis, Britney Armore, every other page should technically have been a flat out brawl with fists a-flying and murders abound. No one, no matter how down trodden, would put up with it. But apparently Lizzie does. I think the odd good argument between these two would have been amusing and uplifting for Lizzie's character.
BUT - as the story nears its conclusion (especially the scene where Lizzie's at work and has her moment of Enlightenment in front of the TV cameras), I found I was pleased to have persevered with it. I was a little disappointed with the ending because it was pretty obvious what was going to happen quite early on in the book. This book is chick lit, but as far as chick lit goes, it's worth a read if you're after something light hearted and easy.
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Nip and Tuck
This book was another book which i couldn't put down, really good and funny short chapters which i perfer don't liked to be bored to death
Published on 27 Feb 2008 by Ms. D. L. Parkinson
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Tries To Hard - Ultimately Disappointing
I have read most of Kathy Lette's previous books and have found them to be spot on in their observations on women, life, love and sex. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2006 by ZenZen
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Wittily wry
This is such a funny novel! The author's style of writing and her witty play on words make her books a delight to read. Read more
Published on 10 May 2003
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Witty struggle between beauty and brains
...Kathy Lette's eighth novel begins ...[with] a promising start for 255 pages full of deliciously witty humour about the struggle of a 40-year-old mother who's battling against... Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2002 by "michelle1977"
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Hilarious and dark in places
If you've ever considered plastic surgery, STOP and read this book first. Great read, full of the (hilarious) horrors of the world of plastic surgery. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2002
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Gobbled in one sitting
Nip'n'Tuck is a very funny read although the ending is a bit far fetched.... I would recommend it for a laugh out loud, quick book but nothing more.
Published on 7 Jan 2002
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Frank, Funny, Fantastic!
I am a huge Kathy Lette fan, the lady is amazingly perceptive and witty and probably best NOT read on public transport. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2001
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