Ruth Keen Ruth Keen i(A90364 works by)
Gender: Female
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6 10 y separately published work icon To Love, Honour and Betray (Till Divorce Do Us Part) Kathy Lette , London : Bantam Books , 2008 Z1529399 2008 single work novel

'When Lucy's husband of eighteen years runs out on her, she'll do anything to win him back. Including climbing out of her bedroom window at one in the morning wearing her daughter's mini skirt.

'Jasper has left Lucy for her best friend, the chic and thin interior decorator Renee. To make matters worse, her teenage daughter Tally, blames her Mum. "Dad left because you've let yourself go, you're overweight and you nagged him. No wonder he buggered off."

'While Tally is busy trying to find a loophole in her birth certificate so she can put herself up for adoption, Lucy tries to accept that a child is for life and not just for Christmas. Although a signed-up member of Underachievers Anonymous, in Lucy's quest to win back her husband she learns to be a surf life saver, loses weight and gets a job. She also falls in lust, finding herself torn between an older and a much younger man.But it's not until Lucy makes the Freudian discovery that her toy boy is also dating her daughter - and that he's been paid to do so by her conniving ex as ammunition for a custody battle, that she finally learns to stand on her own two stilettos.' (Publisher's blurb)
4 11 y separately published work icon How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) Kathy Lette , London : Simon and Schuster , 2006 Z1255814 2006 single work novel humour 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 forty - 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? (Source: Trove)
3 8 y separately published work icon Dead Sexy Kathy Lette , Sydney London : Simon and Schuster , 2003 Z1070825 2003 single work novel humour satire
5 3 y separately published work icon Nip 'n' Tuck Kathy Lette , Sydney : Picador , 2001 Z901607 2001 single work novel humour romance Lizzie's life is pretty damn perfect, until she realises she's about to hit the dreaded 4-0. But losing her job to a younger journalist is not the only ingrown pube in the bikini wax of Lizzie's life. Her surgeon husband, Hugo, unexpectedly falls for an actress who keeps fit by doing step-aerobics off her own ego. Lizzie has always believed brains to be more important than beauty, but up against a sex goddess, principles and profundity are about as useful as a eunuch at a whipped-cream orgy. (Source: Trove)
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