Description: 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...
Brief description:
Kathy Lette is an internationally best selling author who first achieved a succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. She has written twenty-one books which have been translated into nineteen languages and was recently honoured with a G100 Exceptional Women of Excellence Award for her 'outstanding work as an author and advocate of women's rights.'
Kathy has two children and divides her time between Sydney and London. Although an autodidact (a word she says she clearly taught herself), Kathy has three honorary doctorates. Four of her novels are currently in film and TV production. She is a TV presenter, travel writer, newspaper and magazine satirical columnist, feminist campaigner and an ambassador for Their World, the National Autistic Society and Ambitious About Autism. Kathy most recently toured internationally with her one-woman show, "Girls Night Out", and is pleased to report that she didn't fall out with the cast. Visit her website at www.kathylette.com and find her on Twitter @KathyLette, Facebook/KathyLetteAuthor and Instagram @kathy.letteReview 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)