When the odds are against you, it’s time to get even.
Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so, imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men.
Only they’re not going down without a fight.
Society might think the women have passed their amuse-by dates but the Revenge Club have other plans.
After all, why go to bed angry when you could stay up and plot diabolical retribution? Let the games begin…
Kathy Lette is an Aussie icon. Seriously. There should be a big statue of her somewhere, that people visit on the way to the Big Banana and Big Prawn. Like them, she’s larger than life, fun and so quintessentially, unashamedly Aussie. From her early success with Puberty Blues, through to 20 subsequent books which have been translated into 19 languages, she has made women laugh and cheer.
And now she’s done it again, but on steroids. The Revenge Club shows Lette at her very best. Just when she’d been told she was past her own amuse by date, she pivoted, rewrote the narrative, and is here with her best book ever.
Best friends Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are roaring towards sixty, each with their lives unravelling in some way. They’ve all been made redundant in some way, professionally and personally by men, but together they are a force to be reckoned with, and they’re going to claim their crowns back.
Matilda is a bestselling novelist who has been dropped by her publisher. She has two children, one on the Autism spectrum. Lette’s son has ASD and she’s recently made public how she was told stories doe older women weren’t popular anymore. So how much of Lette is in Matilda? Tune in to our Better Reading Event on March 20th at 8pm AEDT to find out.
The Revenge Club had me laughing out loud on page one. It’s a hoot. It’s fun but it’s also a glorious celebration of female friendship, older women and sisterhood. It’s in this that the novel really shines. Humour aside, Lette is a woman’s woman and that shows.
Kathy Lette, like all women on the right side of fifty, has a lot more to say, more laughs to provide and certainly tales to tell – I feel like The Revenge Club is a fresh new start for the Queen of Quip. Revenge looks good on her, and is certainly sweet.
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