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Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV mini-series. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she wrote ten international bestsellers including Mad Cows (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel), How to Kill Your Husband and Other Handy Household Hints (recently staged by the Victorian Opera, Australia), and To Love, Honour and Betray. Her novels have been published in fourteen languages around the world. Kathy appears regularly as a guest on the BBC and Sky News. She is also an ambassador for Women and Children First, Plan International and the White Ribbon Alliance. In 2004 she was the London Savoy Hotel's Writer in Residence. In 2010 she received an honorary doctorate from Southampton Solent University.

Kathy lives in London with her husband and two children. Visit her website at www.kathylette.com and on Twitter @KathyLette.

'Query: would it be a serious breach of etiquette to run out on my own wedding?'

This is what Becky Steele finds herself asking, an hour before she's due to walk down the aisle. After finally managing to fit into her meringue dress after weeks of drinking only skimmed water, she's suddenly worried that wedlock is little more than a padlock.

Yes, she loves Julian, but is she ready to be a proper grown-up, and give up the joys of the single life? Julian might be the right man, but has she had enough wrong ones?

Then temptation arrives in the form of gorgeous rockstar toy boy Zack. Becky doesn't know which way to turn, but she knows there can only be one Mr Right. The question is, which one?