Kathy Lette is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books. As an adult, Lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with Girls' Night Out in 1988 and has since written several more successful novels and plays, including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel) and Dead Sexy.