LIBRARY EDITION: Every woman wants to be wanted but just not by the entire Metropolitan police force. Maddy Wolfe's first day out with her newborn takes a Kafkaesque turn when she's wrongfully arrested in Harrods for shoplifting. The only person she can turn to is her hot-to-trot ex-lover Alex. Will he prove himself to be as useful as a solar powered vibrator on a rainy day …?
On an outing with her one-month-old son, aching and lactating Maddy Wolfe is falsely accused of shoplifting in Harrod's. While not guilty as charged, she HAS stuffed some frozen peas down her blouse to soothe her aching mammaries, an act that causes her to become a victim of the British penal system. Fiona Macleod does a deadpan reading, allowing Kathy Lette's sardonic take on bureaucracy its full-frontal insanity. As Maddy sinks deeper and deeper into the morass of moronic prison officials, lascivious legal advisors, and an unscrupulous psychologist-in-training, Macleod keeps it all entertaining. Although the situation is Kafka-esque, that's where the resemblance ends. Characters are stereotypes and caricatures. Fluffy stuff at best, depending more on wisecracks than wit, MAD COWS is good for a giggle when mindlessness is the best medicine. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
Publishers Weekly...
A raucous comic ode to the joys of motherhood.
Elle Magazine...
A wit so daring that you’ll gasp at her bravado before you laugh out loud.
AudioFile Magazine...
Fiona Macleod does a deadpan reading, allowing Kathy Lette's sardonic take on bureaucracy its full-frontal insanity. As Maddy sinks deeper and deeper into the morass of moronic prison officials, lascivious legal advisors, and an unscrupulous psychologist-in-training, Macleod keeps it all entertaining.
About the Author
Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, co-written with Gabrielle Carey, which was made into a film. After several years as a singer in a rock band, a newspaper columnist in Sydney and New York (collected in the book Hit and Ms) and as a television sitcom writer for Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles, her novels, Girls’ Night Out (1988), The Llama Parlour (1991), Foetal Attraction (1993), Mad Cows (1996) and Altar Ego (1998) became international bestsellers. Kathy Lette’s plays include ‘Grommits’, ‘Wet Dreams’, ‘Perfect Mismatch’ and ‘I’m So Happy For You Really I Am’. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
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