Thursday, March 27, 2014

New book in series from New Zealand’s Queen of Wicked One-liners

Publication 4 April, 2014

Life has served our queen of wicked one-liners the good, the not-so-good and the downright ugly, but in this new original collection, novelist and columnist Sarah-Kate Lynch manages to provide the laughs on every single page as she transforms tragedy into triumph and sometimes back again - two or three times - in her search for happiness.

Turning 50 was marked by a year of celebration for Sarah-Kate, whose columns, initially in NZ Woman’s Weekly and now NZ Woman’s Day, have had readers seeking out her witticisms in their hundreds of thousands for nearly two decades.

But making the big five-o wasn’t just about shopping for shoes in Paris and remaining en vacance no matter how many times she was told to go home — it was also a time to reflect on what she thinks is, ultimately, the recipe for a happy life.

Screw you Dolores: A Wicked Approach to Happiness is the long-awaited follow up to Stuff It: A Wicked Approach to Dieting and kick starts her Wicked Approach series, with a third one already in the pipeline.

Just like the author herself, who’s sure to delight audiences at May‘s ‘Auckland Writers and Readers Festival’, Screw You Dolores is smart, funny and shrewd.

Sarah-Kate thoughtfully reflects on marriage, children, friendships, waistlines, career hurdles and also how she’s dealt with some bigger, darker blips along the way.

This fresh, lively book hums with hilarious anecdotes on subjects from finding the perfect boots, to the correct use for whiteboards, losing jobs, gaining pounds, star-gazing (of the Hugh Jackman kind) and wearing, or preferably not wearing, “poo-catcher” pants.

Along the way she shares quotes from her heroes, from Gandhi to Dolly Parton, and concocts helpful if not entirely truthful lists to help all of us who need it to survive the hurdles of everyday life with, if not a spring in their step, at least a smile.

Buy it for yourself or for a friend or simply for a good giggle. And buy it because as Sarah-Kate explores how to make herself happy by ignoring the expectations of others, she reveals great wisdom, too. I have to confess that I burst out laughing several times while reading Screw You Dolores and smiled on frequent occasions.
It is an absolutely adorable treat for any mum this Mother’s Day.

“Buy this book, or I will have a terrible Mother’s Day.” Sarah-Kate Lynch’s mother.

“Screw You Dolores is the best book I have ever read and I think everyone who likes my own books should buy at least two copies.” Nicholas Sparks

“Her head is almost exactly the right size.” Elle McPherson

“Inventing quotes to make yourself sound fantastic is actually much harder than it looks.” Sarah-Kate Lynch


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 
Sarah-Kate Lynch is a novelist and columnist and has worked as a journalist, radio presenter, television producer, magazine editor, typist and once, for a very short while, as a waitress. She has published eight hugely popular novels plus the diet book, and is currently Travel Editor of NZ Woman’s Day, a dreadful job that you should not even think about trying to nick off her or she will hurt you. I mean really hurt you.
Critic Margie Thomson has attributed the international success of Sarah-Kate’s fiction to her ‘distinctive voice at the quality end of the popular-fiction genre’ and Margie Thomson is not even related to Sarah-Kate.The author lives with her husband and her dog, except when she is somewhere else, which is a pretty good system.

Random House NZ - $29.99
Publication 4 April, 2014

Footnote:
This is Ted, the author's much-loved dog who gets a few mentions in the new book:






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