How to Kill Your Husband - Brossura

Lette, Kathy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743248074 ISBN 13: 9780743248075

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Marriage is a fun-packed, frivolous hobby... only occasionally resulting in death.
All wives sporadically want to kill their husbands. “Where there’s a will, I intend to be in it,” wives half joke with each other. “Not all husbands are bastards – some of them are dead.”
But when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband’s murder, the joke falls flat. Life should begin at 40. Not life imprisonment for killing your hubby. The nice thing about having best girlfriends is that when YOU don’t know what you’re doing, someone else always does. Jazz’s friends know that she doesn’t have a license to kill; hell, she doesn’t even have a learner’s permit.
Jazz ( the stay at home Mum and Domestic Goddess); Chloe (the shoulder-padded, childless career woman) and Cassie, (the demented working mother) are three ordinary women. They cleanse their pores and shave their parmesan. Their record collections are classical, not criminal. They can’t believe a prison officer would strip search a woman on a first date; at least not without a dinner and a movie first!
Cassie and Chloe set out to prove Jazz’s innocence... uncovering lust, betrayal, adultery, divorce lawyers, plot twists, thinner thighs and toy boys on the way.
This is a novel about women not Having It All - but Doing It All. It’s about how statistically, 100% of divorces begin with marriage. It’s about wanting to hunt down Martha Stewart and ram a bread maker right up her jacksey. It’s about how the Dunkirk invasion is easier to organise than a working mum getting her kids up and out of the house in the morning. It’s about how a woman can be a married lone parent. It’s about the fact that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was vacuuming.
Women think we’re clever because we can fake orgasms. Well, some men can fake a whole, bloody marriage....
Did she do it or didn’t she do it?... Just make sure you read the small print on your marriage license...

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'HOW TO KILL YOUR HUSBAND (AND OTHER HAND HOUSEHOLD HINTS) is the fast talking, heart-stoppingly paced and pun-tastic culmination of all that . . . Lette's writing is as taut as Angelina Jolie's inner thigh and really funny . . . in her customary breezy fashion, Lette crystallises all the pitfalls facing the modern working couple: work tensions and, more darkly, what becomes of two people who have lost all respect for each other. But what makes Lette such a pro is that, as well as insight, she provides her reader with that rarest of things: a good plot. Fundamentally, this is a well constructed, tightly written thriller . . . it's sold to the core. Like a good marriage, really' Sarah Vine THE TIMES
'With a cast of nymphomaniac new-ages, hard-boiled lawyers and power-crazed pedagogues, there's never a doubt that this will be entertaining. Lette, bestselling author of NIP 'N' TUCK, knows how to pace a plot. The result is a darkly funny, pun-filled satire on yummy-mummy culture, with humanity at its heart' DAILY MAIL
'Kathy Lette is the grande dame of naughty-but-nice chick lit' Observer 4/2
'Kathy Lette is a fantastic writer: she's funny, sharp and writes chick-lit with bite - in this case shark bite' Heat 6/2
‘Female friendship is what Lette does best... her humour is based on sharp observation of real life... A hilarious dissection of marriage and its discontents’
The Times 10/02

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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.
But 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 trademark 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, we all read the small print on our marriage licenses.
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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743248074
• ISBN 13: 9780743248075
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336