If it had been called 'Thirst Ladies', then I might have imagined it being written by one or two suspects that I ride with on a Friday Night (Yes - 3BM / Rich p, sometimes bikes are involved blah blah - before you lot start...
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Anyway.
Tasmina Perry - 'Who she?'
Google gave me the answer
here. (Incidentally, I googled the original book title in order to make this post and 'CycleChat' is the third highest entry on the list!
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Regarding Kathy Lette, every time I hear mention of her, I am transported back to a time when I used to buy the Sunday Times as a 14 yr old. I got it for the colour supp. which always had the latest Italian furnishings and house designs etc. which is why I got it in the first place - to dream (Who remembers Zarach tellys and Bubble Chairs?) but also, in the paper was a column or three of writing by; Jilly Cooper. Late sixties / early seventies onwards - detailing the little things in life which I recollect being fun to read. This was before all the horsey hunk novels that she became renown for, and, as I am trying to explain, predated Kathy Lette by many moons. (And, as an adolescent I would 'pre-date' Kathy Lette any day, and I'd have a post-dated check afterwards - just to make sure I wasn't dreaming!
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Digression being what happens when I have to eat my words, I'l stop now, and let the true literary critics come forth. And it did occur to me that there must be a book about Telly, The Movies and the Travails of Stardom in the offing from 'our Kay' and Arun Nayar's ex. Called "Hurley Burley" this would sustain remainder bookshops nationwide.
