How to Kill Your Husband
By Kathy Lette

Another BRA book club selection, and one that none of us really liked.

All women want to kill their husbands some of the time "Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other. Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death. But when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat. Life should begin at 40 - not with life imprisonment for killing your spouse. Jazz, stay-at-home mum and domestic goddess; Hannah, childless career woman; and Cassie, demented working mother of two are three ordinary women. Cassie and Hannah set out immediately to prove their best friend's innocence, uncovering betrayal, adultery, plot twists, thinner thighs and toy boys aplenty en route but will their friendship survive these ever darker revelations?

For a novel a serious premise, it trivialised the emotions and situations of the people involved. It dealt with serious marital issues as though they were a joke, with no compassion. Yes, it's supposed to be light chick-lit but it didn't strike a cord with me, or any of the BRA book club. Don't bother with this one.