How to Kill Your Husband {and Other Handy Household Hints} by Kathy Lette

And I like, even if it is mostly somewhat clichéd, the journey of self-discovery Jazz takes prior to her arrest. I like the idea that someone you never imagined capable of such a thing could be arrested for murder. That said, the story itself, without the laboured content and padding and jokes so old that they belong in the Natural History Museum, is a good one. This book tends to assume that all women fit into a stereotype and in fact, many women don't.

Something less Germaine Greer circa 1979. Whilst I am sure that every so often someone in the world may utter these words, I was hoping for something fresher. You stand by the sink washing up and I'll lie on the couch farting and watching the footie. Couples do swap positions occasionally you know. You could initiate sex now and again - and try different things. Kathy has fallen on her quill in as far as she has lazily used every marital gag in the book.Ĭassie, here's a novel idea. Have we set the scene? It seems then that we have three archetypal nothing-whatsoever-in-common friends who find themselves giving colour to the background and providing the prequel part of the story to Jazz's sudden arrest for the murder of her husband.įrustratingly, this book could have been really, really good. Hannah is a childless career woman, married to an arty type fifteen years her junior, superior, aloof and apparently colder than Saturn. Anyway, I digress Cassie is a working mother, tortured by her job as a primary school teacher and the distinct lack of promotion to deputy head that she so richly deserves, and who is also a doormat, a dogsbody and an all round serf for husband Rory - the local vet - and her two diabolical children.

Jazz Jardine is a stay at home mum actually, she's not really the true definition of a stay at home mum in my view, she lives in a multi-million pound house with her surgeon husband and has a designer label loo brush. Especially whilst seated next to my husband! The best part about reading it was the looks I received whilst perusing its pages on the tube. How To Kill Your Husband comes under that unfortunate banner. Everything she has published since has been like an exercise in warring siblings who can never quite be as clever, funny, charming or thoughtful as that loathed eldest child. I don't believe Kathy Lette ever surpassed her first novel, Foetal Attraction which was published way back in 1994. Light and easy to read, occasionally funny, but tries a bit too hard. Summary: Kathy Lette is churning them out in happy succession.

How to Kill Your Husband {and Other Handy Household Hints} by Kathy Lette