To Love, Honour and Betray
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Narrated by:
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Nicky Talacko
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By:
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Kathy Lette
About this listen
When Lucy's husband of 18 years runs out on her, she'll do anything to win him back. Including climbing out of her bedroom window at one in the morning wearing her daughter's mini skirt. Jasper has left Lucy for her best friend, the chic and thin interior decorator Renee. To make matters worse, her teenage daughter Tally, blames her mum: "Dad left because you've let yourself go, you're overweight and you nagged him. No wonder he buggered off."
While Tally is busy trying to find a loophole in her birth certificate so she can put herself up for adoption, Lucy's tries to accept that a child is for life and not just for Christmas. Although a signed-up member of Underachievers Anonymous, in Lucy's quest to win back her husband she learns to be a surf life saver, loses weight, and gets a job. She also falls in lust, finding herself torn between an older and a much younger man.
But it's not until Lucy makes the Freudian discovery that her toy boy is also dating her daughter - and that he's been paid to do so by her conniving ex as ammunition for a custody battle, that she finally learns to stand on her own two stilettos.
©2009 Kathy Lette (P)2009 Bolinda PublishingEditorial reviews
Forty-two-year-old Lucy has read articles about the effect of divorce on teenage children. So when Lucy’s husband leaves her, Lucy’s counting on her daughter blaming herself. That’s just the kind of twisted wit that that fills this barbed comedy by Australian ex-pat Kathy Lette.
Lette, whose previous book is called How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints), specializes in outlandish but plausible scenarios and comic zingers. Performer Nicky Talacko is up to to the task - especially when she voices Lucy’s petulant and annoyed teenage daughter. Part Nora Ephron, part Carl Hiaasen, this is a comic fiasco not to be missed...unless you don’t like to laugh.
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- Dianne
- 03-12-10
Worthy of your "Credit"
very entertaining - enjoyed it very much and Nicky Talacko is still the best narrator in my book (pun intended)!!! I would listen to any book she narrated!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- sherril
- 08-12-10
To Love, Honour and Betray
From start to finish this is excellent!. A well written, and particularly well read book that follows on in the humorous and engaging style of Kathy Lette. I would certainly recommend this.
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- Mandy
- 03-02-15
Way too many not-so-funny one liners!
Although the story was a nice, light read, I was tired of the one liners by chapter 3. It seemed the author was trying too hard to be funny, slipping somewhat humorous quips in just about every paragraph. It made it very difficult for me to get through the book without being annoyed and rolling my eyes. Too much!
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Vasha
- 05-12-09
What Woman would allow this?
I have a really hard time imagining that any woman would put up with a man like this and still want him back. For that reason I could barely get through this book. I was so frustrated with this woman. And the disrespect from her daughter was utterly riduculous. I was not impressed by the writing in this book; I found it very un-realistic.
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- Pam
- 03-30-13
Don't Waste Your Credit
Would you try another book from Kathy Lette and/or Nicky Talacko?
No.This is the first novel I've read by Kathy Lette and it will be my last. The story is poorly constructed and so predictable.
Has To Love, Honour and Betray turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, it hasn't put me off the genre. I've read some excellent novels in the past by other authors and I'm sure I will again.
Would you be willing to try another one of Nicky Talacko’s performances?
The narrator's performance was abysmal and when narrating the parts of the Australian characters the accent used was grating to listen to. I will be avoiding books narrated by Nicky Talacko in the future.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
None that I can think of.
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