Revenge is a dish that doesn’t add to your waistline, says Lette

PROLIFIC Aussie author Kathy Lette (How to Kill Your Husband, Foetal Attraction) launched her new novel The Revenge Club with a bunch of famous pals last night at Goldsboro Books near Leicester Square. “This book is saying to women go forth and be fabulous, have a sensational second act,” she said, “for women life is in two acts and I think the trick is surviving the interval, which is the menopause, where you sweat more than Donald Trump doing a sudoku.”

The book follows four women trying to exact revenge on men who have wronged them. “The great thing about revenge is that it’s sweet but totally non-fattening,” Lette quipped.

Stephen Fry was doubly chuffed at the party because the white smoke has gone up from the Garrick Club. Fry threatened to resign as a member if the club stayed men-only. This week it voted to allow women.

Ruby Wax, right, the greatest TV interviewer in history, was also there. She told us she is struggling for work at the moment, because TV interviews have gone soft. “I can’t do that stuff, if I don’t like somebody it shows on my face!”

Lette, far right, was also joined by Jemima Khan, centre, and Julia Gillard, the ex-PM of Australia, where the book is already a bestseller.