Lette first attracted attention in 1979 as the co-author (with Gabrielle Carey) of
Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls attempting to improve their social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhills gang" of surfers. The book was made into
a film in 1981 and
a TV series in 2012. She subsequently 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 novels and plays, including Foetal Attraction
in 1993, Mad Cows
in 1996 (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel) and Dead Sexy''. She left Australia for the United Kingdom in 1988 and took British citizenship in 2011. which was turned into an
opera in 2011 by composer
Alan John and playwright
Timothy Daly; it was premiered at the
Victorian Opera, conducted by
Richard Gill. The same year, she briefly appeared on
Sunrise as a London correspondent, a part of the Global Notebook. In 2008, Lette published
To Love, Honour and Betray (Till Divorce Us Do Part), a romantic novel with hints of comedy. With Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson and
Imogen Edwards-Jones, Lette edited an anthology by prominent women writers of erotic short-stories,
In Bed with... (2009), including contributions from
Louise Doughty,
Esther Freud,
Ali Smith,
Joan Smith,
Rachel Johnson and
Fay Weldon, each publishing under a
pseudonym. In April 2009, she contributed to the fourth issue of the literary magazine
Notes from the Underground with a piece honouring her close friend
John Mortimer. In November 2009, she received an
honorary doctorate from
Southampton Solent University. She teamed with
Radox to write a water-resistant book, which was released free online in September 2009, with an aim to encourage women to be selfish with their time. ==Recognition==