Kathy Lette
Australian-British author
Not winning any literary prizes.
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That the last general election didn’t take place later. We might have got rid of the Tories with a couple more weeks.
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To all those whose fleeting interaction with me has fallen short of what they’d hoped; the unwitting recipients of my occasional grumpiness.
Worrying that I’ve upset people.
Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.
I cleaned for a very posh lady in Knightsbridge who made me handwash her knickers. I’d advertised myself in The Lady as a dog walker, so I’m not sure how I ended up there.
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