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How to Kill Your Husband

And Other Handy Household Hints

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How to Kill Your Husband

By: Kathy Lette
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
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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, but 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 that will strike a cord with married women everywhere and ensure that, from now on, they all read the small print on their marriage licences.

©2006 Kathy Lette (P)2007 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Women's Fiction Marriage Crime Funny

Editorial reviews

Kathy Lette is a straight-shooting, big-hearted, Aussie ex-pat who goes straight for the throat and the funny-bone of the middle-aged woman in her novels, articles, and works for the screen. Like an Australian Nora Ephron, Lette makes her audience a bit uncomfortable, but her sympathy never fails.

In How to Kill Your Husband, a novel, Aussie Caroline Lee performs in a slow, simple manner as she tells the story of Jazz Jardine, who is in prison for killing her husband, and Jazz’s middle-aged friends’ attempts to secure her exoneration. The set-up, of course, is just the English muffin; the butter is the musing on family, love, and age. This would make a good gift to a friend who is - or should be - divorced.
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What a wonderful story.... loved it. Also Caroline Lee does a fantastic job as ever💜

Hilarious

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funny i stepped out of my genre and was surprisingly delighted. well worth the read

surprisingly good

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I have loved Kathy Lette in the past, however found every second sentence was a pun or a double-entendre. This detracted from any storyline and I gave up.

Didn't finish - too many corny puns

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I really struggled to connect in any way with this book. While it came highly recommended and I was looking forward to it I perhaps wasn’t in the right mindset as I couldn’t get past the first few chapters, their negativity and blandness. I will try again given the high recommendation. But not now.

Struggled to get through

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Couldn't get past the 2nd chapter, the constant putting down of men was just too offensive

Not funny

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