HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy
The hilarious and heartbreaking novel from bestselling author Kathy Lette
by Kathy Lette
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Pub Date Aug 01 2024 | Archive Date Aug 01 2024
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Description
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 have all turned up to celebrate her 50th birthday.
But after a few too many glasses of champers, Ruby’s speech doesn’t exactly go to plan. Instead of delivering the witty and warm words her guests are expecting, Ruby takes her moment in the spotlight to reveal what she really thinks of every one of them. She also accuses her husband, Harry, 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 concludes her bravura monologue with the throwaway comment that she has terminal cancer. She has cashed in her life savings and plans on taking her two sisters cruising into the sunset for a dose of 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
Advance Praise
Feminist social satire. Lette’s swingeing irreverence still has the juice to make you laugh out loud. CAMERON WOODHEAD, THE AGE
We devoured Kathy’s newy over a chardonnay in one sitting! She’s the thinking lady’s hornbag. KATH AND KIM
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781035906338 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 368 |
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Featured Reviews
Dave B, Reviewer
HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy,is the latest laugh out loud,with the occasional cringe at "too much information", from the deservedly popular Kathy Lette.
When Ruby discovers that she has terminal cancer on the eve of her 50th Birthday celebrations she delivers a drink-fuelled "what have I got to lose" speech that would make Frankie Boyle blush. Giving the assembled (about to be former) friends and family both barrels she rounds off an exceptional piece of oratory by very publicly revealing that having seen his phone messages her husband is having an affair. The next day,hung over but glad that she's outed the liars,losers and hypocrites in her life she receives a letter........informing her that there's been a mistake and she doesn't have cancer after all.
Having deeply insulted the 2 sisters she'd booked a "farewell cruise" with Ruby manages to convince them not to back out.........which they only agree to as they still think she's dying, Keeping her not so little secret Ruby and her sisters set sail on a holiday involving much debauchery and exploring much more than the Pacific Ocean.
While this is a very funny book it's also insightful and often moving as Ruby and her sisters look at the lives they've got,or rather have settled for,and what they really want. It's a bit of a roller coaster that successfully mixes humour and pathos, one scene in particular comes out of the blue and kicks the reader in the guts while the family Christmas is the funniest thing I've read for a long time.
It's rude,often crude, extremely funny and unpredictable,just as I thought it was winding down ..............well you'll have to read it for yourself to find out.
