The Revenge Club

Kathy Lette writes humorous books about the challenges of older women, often their relationships with men,  and The Revenge Club continues this trend. Four older women - Matilda (Tilly), Jo, Penny and Cressida (Cressy) - meet one day after thirty years apart and discuss problems they are facing in their work opportunities or in marriage. 

Jo has discovered that dressing as a man and calling herself Joseph allows her to continue working at the job she enjoys in the film industry. Penny, a respected reporter and television host, loses her job on a television show as she is considered to be too old while her male co-host, who is the same age, hosts the show on his own. Cressida gave up her job when she married to support her husband and bring up their four daughters. Now that the girls are no longer at home she starts looking for acting work again but is considered too old for most jobs. Then she discovers that her husband, an influential lawyer, has been dating a younger woman. When she tries to divorce him she discovers that he has taken total control of the family property and financial accounts. Matilda, a successful author, discovers that her publisher is refusing to publish her new book because he considers that she is too old and unappealing to look at.

The four women therefore decide to create the Revenge Club.

Kathy Lette has created an often amusing and sometimes raunchy tale of how the four women set out to achieve revenge for themselves and other women in a similar situation.