Madeline "Maddy" Wolfe abandons her native Australia for Great Britain and the exciting new man in her life, television exec Alexander Drake, only to discover that her lover has feet of clay and that she has just failed a pregnancy test. Tour.
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Like a literary meringue, Lette's newest (after The Llama Parlor, 1991) is light, fluffy and scarcely memorable. Madeline (Maddy) Wolfe, a free-spirited six-foot Australian with cropped red hair and a nose ring, is giving birth in an inner-city London hospital. As she goes through the agonies of childbirth, she looks back on her affair with Alexander Drake, a wildly popular TV zoologist. Maddy first meets Alex in Sydney, where he is investigating the sex lives of giant cleaner wrasses. Deeply in lust, she follows him to London. Maddy settles into his flat and takes a course at an upscale cooking school. There, over the haggis and kidney pie, she meets her soon-to-be best friend, Gillian Cassells, who's honing the skills she'll need to catch "Marquis Right." Upon Alex's return, Maddy finds herself thrown to the social lions, for whom a swell evening out might include a sneak peak at Robert Maxwell's autopsy. In the midst of her misery, Maddy learns that Alex is married?and that she is pregnant. Lette writes a lively prose, but her wit, raw and frenetic, is probably an acquired taste.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Kathy Lette first achieved succes de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, now a major film. After several years as a singer in a rock band, a newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York, and a television sitcom writer for Columbia pictures in LA, she wrote Girls' Night Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction , Mad Cows, Altar Ego and Nip 'n' Tuck, which have all become international bestsellers.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great in every way,
By jumpy1 (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foetal Attraction (Paperback)
Witty, truthful, troublesome, entertaining - this book deserved its success. I love how we find out about the main character gradually, as her experiences unfold, so that it continually makes one question who this person really is. Kathy Lette is a tremendously talented writer with so much to say, and so hilariously, it's hard to believe one person came up with it all. I relived some of the best and worst parts of my life while reading this book and eventually I just had to laugh at myself, as I laughed with the characters! Suffice it to say Ms. Lette tells this young woman's story, faithfully showing life's light and dark sides, and carrying it all through to a truthful conclusion, without degenerating into moral platitude. And never, ever losing her brilliant sense of humor.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment,
By Laura (Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foetal Attraction (Paperback)
Everyone told me how funny this book was but I didn't laugh once! I thought the main character was a bimbo who at her age, should have known better. It was hard to feel anything for her apart from pity at her being so thick!All the references to Britain being cold, miserable and full of hard hearted toffs I thought were very narrow minded, and sounded suspiciously like Kathy Lette had done the typical visitor to Britain's trick of never leaving London! It hasn't inspired me to read any more of her books, although if I come across one for 10p at a jumble sale back in the UK, I might buy it out of curiosity!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
By SW (Chicago, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foetal Attraction (Paperback)
I just finished this and boy what a mess. The prose is good, but the story and the characterizations are just awful. The biggest problem was our heroine Maddie. I guess we're supposed to be dazzled by her Australlian audaciousness, but she comes off as beyond pathetic. I mean people are calling her stupid and ugly to her face and it's all chalked up to "being British." Not to mention how condescending so-called Prince Charming is to her. I mean, how thick is this woman?
I bought the sequel, Mad Cows at the same time as this one, but I am now hesitant to read it after this literary let-down.
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