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08 / 2013
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* ?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? IndependentIndia 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.

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