{"product_id":"hrt-husband-replacement-therapy-the-hilarious-and-heartbreaking-novel-guaranteed-to-brighten-your-day-9781035906338","title":"Hrt: Husband Replacement Therapy: The Hilarious and Heartbreaking Novel Guaranteed to Brighten Your Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuby 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Kathy Lette: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fabulous, fast-paced, funny \u0026amp; unapologetically female. Nobody does it better.' \u003cb\u003eDEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, THE GUILTY FEMINIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity at its heart. Read with relish.' \u003cb\u003eNICOLE KIDMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Kathy Lette can turn from raunchy farce to the most tender emotion in a trice.' \u003cb\u003eSTEPHEN FRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathy Lette \u003c\/b\u003efirst achieved success as a teenager with the novel \u003ci\u003ePuberty Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. Since then, her novels have been published in seventeen languages around the world. Kathy appears regularly as a guest on the BBC and Sky News. She is also an ambassador for Women and Children First, Plan International and the White Ribbon Alliance. In 2004 she was the London Savoy Hotel's Writer in Residence where a cocktail named after her can still be ordered. Kathy is an autodidact (a word she obviously taught herself) but in 2010, received an honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent University. Kathy lives in London with her husband and two children. She cites her career highlights as once teaching Stephen Fry a word, Salman Rushdie, the limbo and scripting Julian Assange's cameo in the \u003ci\u003eSimpsons \u003c\/i\u003e500th episode.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359012913426,"sku":"9781035906338","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20c7e844-3cba-4310-aa4a-2c89efd99f2a.jpg?v=1749576070","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hrt-husband-replacement-therapy-the-hilarious-and-heartbreaking-novel-guaranteed-to-brighten-your-day-9781035906338","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}