Kathy Lette

When Kathy Lette co-wrote Puberty Blues in the late 1970s, she never imagined she'd become the go-to guide on teenage life. Three decades on, she's ready to ...

"But in going to Britain, in dealing with the criticism that she faced, in facing it down and succeeding, that taught her a lot of lessons and I think deepened and broadened her perspective as a writer." So it was a lovely thing that happened to me in my second act." "So I think if you can entertain and enlighten and uplift then that's the ultimate literary trick. And it just got a bit too exhausting." "A lot of people believe that everyone with autism acts the same or has the same form of autism, when everyone's autism is different. "It was a very expensive, long, drawn-out, incredibly anxious time of my life," Kathy admits. "It was a very intense time and there was suddenly a lot of pressure on us," Kathy explains. "Geoff will be the first one to say that he's a workaholic and he worked really full-on right through our marriage," Kathy says. "I just had to be with that person, and he felt the same way." "One day when he was nine, he came home with a sign sticky taped to his back saying, 'Kick me, I'm a retard,'" she recalls. "What is it about love?" At 16 she left school and moved out of home, much to the horror of her school principal mother.