I think this book was perhaps more annoying in the audiobook, than the physical book form. The main character is so annoying, the way she constantly makes pathetic attempts at humour, and uses overly dramatic words wherever she finds the opportunity.

Her continued insistence that she still feels love and lust for her snivelling, painfully irritating husband wears thin very quickly. After how he tossed her aside without even a blush of apology, why she feels as though he's still the man she loves, I have no idea. He comes across like a Prince Charles caricature.

The real hero of the book is somewhat interesting, but after the continual frustrations that the two find themselves in, I don't know why he would ever suddenly find himself bleating that she "completes" him. Especially after she was happily enjoying her new found freedom with someone else just moments earlier (perhaps not moments, but certainly not that long beforehand).

The Prince Charles and his Camilla (Renee) were just too stereotypical to ever sympathise with, or identify with in any way, making their own side story just an irritating page filler. The eventual unravelling of Renee was ludicrously complicated, and rather ridiculous.

I kept up with it because I like Kathy Lette. However, it felt much more like an example of a story written in haste with an overly ridiculous plot, in preparation for toning it down and bringing some realism into it. Except that the second edit never happened.

Better than two stars, but I don't think it deserved three.