Author:India Knight
* 'Hilariously accurate. The funniest novel about the female mid-life crisis' The Times *
Clara Hutt is forty-six years old, and in pretty good nick, considering. She has kick-ass underwear, a large and loving family, and a healthy sense of what matters in life. Until Gaby moves in.
Gaby's an old school friend of Clara's who has just returned from LA. She may be a yoga mogul who lives off kale, and speaks a made-up fantasy novel language, but Gaby's no stranger to cosmetic surgery: she's almost fifty, but looks thirty-six at most.
What with Gaby, and Clara's son's leggy girlfriend, Sky, wafting around the house in her stripy pants, Clara starts to wonder if a little Botox, a little filler, a nip and a tuck, would be so very wrong. Should she ignore the fear? Or is there another way to grow old gracefully - and how far is she prepared to go to find out?
'Had me reaching for the hankie as I wept with laughter from start to finish' Evening Standard
'A brilliant mix of humour and heart . . . offers a witty take on the ageing process, delivered in Knight's usual pithy, thought-provoking style' Grazia
'Tear-inducingly funny . . . we love this story' Closer
'Gleeful. A frank and funny novel of Harley Street makeovers and matronly madness' Independent
India Knight is the author of three previous novels: My Life on a Plate, Don't You Want Me and Comfort and Joy. Her non-fiction books include The Shops, the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, the accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook and The Thrift Book. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in London with her three children.
Every so often you will hit a line so funny and true it will make you gasp out loud . . . sharp and bracing as a Claridges martini
—— Jenny Colgan , Daily TelegraphHad me choking with laughter . . . Knight has pulled off a clever trick here. With humour and wit, she's addressed the serious subject of how to swallow the bitter pill of ageing not necessarily gracefully
—— Evening StandardThe glorious fourth novel from Sunday Times columnist India Knight . . . An honest, funny book about the complexities of middle age and a reminder that life is for living, with passion and gusto, whatever your age
—— Hello!A very funny exploration of ageing written with the author's trademark wit
—— Sunday MirrorThe funniest novel about the female midlife crisis
—— The TimesBreathless, colourful, hilarious and honest
—— Daily MailThe novel has a cumulative power and resonates with many reflections about the course of individual destiny in a profoundly cruel universe
—— The TimesThis is Amis writing at the pitch he has reached in Money...remarkable
—— Times Literary SupplementA compelling work of fiction in which learning and imagination are beautifully counterpoised
—— New StatesmanSavage, hilarious, uncannily moving, and true. It's the first novel I've read that burns with all the madness, sadness and refracted terror of right now, and everyone should read it. Right now
—— Jacob PolleyThis is a book which does more than just take you on a journey through the last twenty years. It also has a lot to say about family eccentricities, about childhood and adulthood and the difficulties faced in trying to be either, given the times we live alongside
—— Matt HaigThe book is magnificent, understated, full of gentle mind grenades
—— Cliff JonesFunny and rich and dirty and taut and original. I wanted it to be my biography, but there was way more warmth and invention in it than you could fit in a lifetime
—— David WhitehouseFunny, sad, bewildering and painfully honest, it’s a must-read for all fans of Joe Dunthorne’s Submarine
—— Emerald StreetFunny and true
—— ListWhat a beautifully written first novel. Joe Stretch has a way with words that is intensely captivating… Superb on adolescence, the Nineties, and more
—— William Leith , Evening StandardA consistently amusing hymn to unfulfilled potential which grows more involving and poignant as it goes on
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldJim is such a likeable character, unflinchingly recounting in all his worst failures and humiliations
—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on SundayA funny, wryly observed coming-of-age novel, it will strike a chord with anyone who grew up during the Noughties. It’s full of quirky period details and Jim is an engaging narrator
—— Mail on Sunday
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