Loved it. I value the authors honesty as setting up the mother figure as a thoroughly believable character. Her frequent meltdowns resonated with me on so many levels.I am presently navigating the fraught world of child-wrangling as one half of a pretty solid tag team, so I bow in awe at parents ...
I have read and adored all Kathy Lette's previous books. She had to be one of my favourite authors. This book is the first of hers that I have found to be tediously try-hard. The constant one-liner jokes, innuendo and silly humour (one on top of the other) become droll eventually and detract from...
Deserted by her well-to-do husband Jeremy shortly after the birth of their son Merlin, diagnosed as autistic, Lucy has to battle on alone caring for Merlin while trying to hold down her job as an English teacher. When Merlin is in his teens Archie turns up on Lucy's doorstep - he's come to stay. ...
Escapist fiction about a relationship breakdown from hell which is quite funny although from time to time tries to be a bit too clever with too many witicisms. Occasionally a middle class tone creeps in, too, which jars (literary references to Jane Eyre). Don't think an Aussie sheila from Cronull...
A satire on sex, surf and shenanigans in Australia. In a series of conversations, the lifestyle of the modern Aussie woman is revealed, as they discuss the man shortage, Aussie footballers, the married man syndrome and have-it-all feminists.
It's brains versus Botox Lizzie's life is so perfect she has to look down to see cloud nine...until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded four-oh. For most women, turning forty is more dangerous than wearing a bikini thong in a big surf. Not Lizzie. Until, that is, she loses her job to a...
This book couldn’t have been unfunnier if it were about poor cows suffering from Mad Cow disease. It’s chick lit, not my favorite genre, but every now and then I come across a gem that I actually like. This wasn’t one of them.It’s about a brand new mom who just wanted to buy some prunes to help...
My first encounter with Kathy Lette (although I have another 3 books on my shelves - if they are all on a par with this one I won't be buying anymore).I actually got a little bit angry with this book. The 'heroine' of the story is a married mother of 2 who looses her job (reading the news on the ...
I am a very patient person. I can tolerate a weak storyline, provided there are good (or at least sexy) characters to make up for it. I can tolerate an excess of description, or an excess of characters, or even a book with too much going on at once. But, what I have recently discovered that I can...
I read Puberty Blues along with the Top Chicks Shirley, Jess, Lissa, Zoe and Mandee a couple of weeks ago, and because I'm a slack-arsed moll I'm only getting around to writing my review now.My first encounter with Puberty Blues was when I was a young teenager; my mum would sing the theme song fr...
Roxy forbade me from making any contact with my biological father, while Portia forbade me to ignore him. Which left me no time to fathom how I felt about suddenly having a father. I was a minestrone of emotions. ‘He’s my grandfather. The only grandfather I’ve got. Why can’t we give him another c...
This was the realization Madeline Wolfe made when she found herself in the mean streets of Tory Britain, mid-recession. With no contacts or references, there was not a lot on offer. Not to mention a surprising lack of demand for scuba-diving instruction. She could granny-sit for an agency. This i...
It was hard to say what she hated most about it. Was it the heat? The air was so dry the trees were positively whistling for dogs, and the chickens were laying hard-boiled eggs. Or was it maybe the ‘super pit’? The open-cut mine looked as vast and deep as the Grand Canyon. Massive trucks, each wh...