HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy

An outrageously funny, heartbreaking read – when Ruby finds out she has cancer on the brink of her 50th birthday, she decides to start living instead of complying...

Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family and colleagues, which is why they've all turned up to celebrate her 50th birthday.

But after too many glasses of champers, Ruby takes her moment in the spotlight to reveal what she really thinks of every one of them. She accuses her husband of having an affair and lambasts her mother for a lifetime of playing her three daughters against each other – it's blisteringly brutal.

As the stunned gathering gawks at Ruby, the birthday girl reveals that she has terminal cancer, and has cashed in her life savings to take her two estranged sisters cruising into the sunset for a dose of HRT – Husband Replacement Therapy. But is Ruby being courageous or ruthlessly selfish?

Praise for Kathy Lette:
'Fabulous, fast-paced, funny & unapologetically female. Nobody does it better.' DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, THE GUILTY FEMINIST
'Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity at its heart. Read with relish.' NICOLE KIDMAN
'Kathy Lette can turn from raunchy farce to the most tender emotion in a trice.' STEPHEN FRY

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.lette