A Stitch in Time A Novel

It's brains versus BotoxLizzie's life is so perfect she has to lookdownto see cloud nine...until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded four-oh. For most women, turning forty is more dangerous than wearing a bikini thong in a big surf. Not Lizzie. Until, that is, she loses her job to a younger, more telegenic journalist -- and her husband to a sex goddess who keeps fit by doing step aerobics off her ego. That's when she starts to wonder about brains versus Botox. For Lizzie's sister, beauty is one of the most natural and lovely things money can buy. But must Lizzie go under the knife to win back the man she loves? The answer is as obvious as a pre-1990s nose job. This book will have you in stitches...literally!Love, adultery, death, and a disastrous bikini wax

Kathy Lette first achieved literary success as a teenager with Puberty Blues, now a major motion picture, and then worked for years as a newspaper columnist and as a television sitcom writer. Her novels Girls' Night Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows, Altar Ego, and Dead Sexy became international bestsellers which have been translated into seventeen foreign languages and are now published in more than one hundred countries. She has also written four plays. She lives in London with her husband and two children.