NEW RELEASE
Courting Trouble - Kathy Lette (2014)
BBarrister Tilly is unceremoniously dumped from her law chambers, then discovers her psychiatrist husband in bed with another woman. So she reluctantly joins forces with her mother Roxy, a firebrand solicitor, to champion the causes of wronged women. They take on the case of Phyllis, who is charged with attempted murder for taking justice into her own hands after her granddaughter was raped on their rough estate. With the pressure mounting on the women to drop the case, Tilly also has to face off against prosecutor Jack, the guy who broke her heart during her Oxford days. Although Kathy Lette's usual quick-fire and snarky wit is present, the storyline is a lot more serious than expected. The legal and social aspects of Phyllis' case were emotional and engrossing - the standout element of the book. Read it for the legal drama, as Tilly's entanglements certainly didn't present much of a convincing case on the romantic front.
Courting Trouble, by Kathy Lette, is about a mother and daughter who set up an all-female law firm. The summary says: "Tilly has the day from hell when she's sacked from her barristers' chambers in the morning, then finds her husband in bed with her former best friend in the afternoon. She escapes to her mother, Roxy - a sassy solicitor whose outrageous take on men, work and family life is the despair of her more conventional daughter. Roxy comes up with a radical plan for their future - they'll set up a new-style, all-female law firm which will champion women. Before long they are rescuing women who have been cheated, put upon, attacked, ripped off or ruined by the men in their lives. When a gun-toting Grandma bursts upon the scene having shot off the testicles of the men who raped her granddaughter, Tilly finds herself at legal logger heads with Jack Cassidy, the smooth-talking, politically incorrect, legal love god who broke her heart at law school. Jack is fluent in three languages - English, sarcasm and flirtation, and his specialist area is emotional break and enter. But if the man is so loathsome, then why is she committing Acute Lust in the 3rd degree? As Tilly struggles to keep her client out of jail and her own cravings under lock and key, will the rapists walk free? When Tilly's 13-year-old daughter goes missing, she faces the biggest moral dilemma of her life. Should she betray her beliefs and take the law into her own hands?" Courting Trouble is out in August 2014.