Ruby reveals she has terminal cancer and has cashed in her life savings to take her two estranged sisters cruising into the sunset for HRT. She accuses her husband of having an affair and lambasts her mother for a lifetime of playing her three daughters against each other.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

An Outrageously Funny, Heartbreaking Read

When Ruby finds out she has cancer on the brink of her 50th birthday, she decides to start living instead of complying with the traditional expectations of her family and friends. She accuses her husband of having an affair and lambasts her mother for a lifetime of playing her three daughters against each other. As the stunned gathering gawks at Ruby, the birthday girl reveals that she has terminal cancer and has cashed in her life savings to take her two estranged sisters cruising into the sunset for a dose of HRT – Husband Replacement Therapy. But is Ruby being courageous or ruthlessly selfish?

Praise for Kathy Lette

Kathy Lette is a fabulous, fast-paced, funny, and unapologetically female writer. Nobody does it better. Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist

Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity at its heart. Read with relish. Nicole Kidman

Kathy Lette can turn from raunchy farce to the most tender emotion in a trice. Stephen Fry

Weight: 262g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035906338