Kathy Lette divides her time between being a full time writer,
demented mother (now theres a tautology) and trying to find a shopping trolley that doesnt have a clubbed wheel.

Kathy first achieved succés de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, now a major motion picture.

After several years as a singer with the Salami Sisters and a newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York (collected in the book Hit and Ms) and as a television sitcom writer for Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles, her novels, Puberty Blues (1979) Girls Night Out (1988), The Llama Parlour (1991), Foetal Attraction (1993), Mad Cows (1996),Altar Ego (1998) NipNTuck (2001), Dead Sexy (2003) and How To Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) (2006) became international best-sellers. Kathy Lettes plays include Grommits, Wet Dreams, Perfect Mismatch and Im So Happy For You I Really Am.

She lives in London with her husband and two children and has just finished a stint as writer in Residence at Londons Savoy Hotel.

Kathy says that the best thing about being a writer is that you get to work in your jammies all day, drink heavily on the job and have affairs and call it research! (Although her husband says he should have the affair as it would give her a better book!)