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Don't You Want Me? | 
| Author: India Knight
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 33347
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0140297405
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140297409
ASIN: 0140297405
Publication Date: May 2, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Publisher: PenguinDate of Publication: 2002Binding: Soft CoverCondition: Very Good/No JacketDescription: Height 8" 259pp 0140297405 Paperback
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Amazon.co.uk Review
India Knight busted the happy-ever-after cliche in her divorce novel, My Life on a Plate. This time it's sex and the single mum that's on Ms Knight's knowing agenda. Forget gritty realism though, in Don't You Want Me the only element of kitchen sink drama in this frothy tale is whether there'll be enough roasted leg of lamb and rosemary to go round. And it's an important question to Estella de la Croix, she's a woman of appetites. Leading lady Stella has two ex-husbands, a very large house, gorgeous clothes and a sweetly blonde toddler called Honey. She even has an artist lodger, who is lovely, but too ginger to be fanciable. Everything is superficially perfect, except for one thing, the lack of sex. "I have no-one to sin with" wails Stella, and decides to do something about it. There follows a gruesomely confessional account of over-age drinking and drugs. And one-night-stands with a perma-tanned plastic surgeon--(sleeping with him is like "contorting an Action Man into unlikely positions") or an equally unappealing DJ, a thirtysomething man who thinks he's 17. And although Stella can be very witty on the dating game and middle-class laissez-faire parenting, less amusing is her scatological humour, or bad taste jokes about the handicapped. By the end of the novel Stella has decided that casual sex is not for her, a relationship is what she really, really wants. And her lucky partner? Well let's just say that ginger Frank isn't a red herring.--Eithne Farry
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 Hilarious August 20, 2008
As with 'My life on a plate' this was a great read. Very, very funny - India Knight's style of writing is just so compelling and easy to read - I had a smile on my face the whole time. Stella was a likeable (if a little unbelievable) and entertaining character and the delivery of her experiences was spot on. From playgroups to getting a man's perspective on pulling - an absolute hoot, I really did howl with laughter at some of the situations.
The only trouble with Knight's books however, is that they are not long enough! Just as I'm getting cosy and starting to really enjoy myself immensely, things get wound up and the end comes before I'm ready - I'm always left wanting more and really sorry to close her books for the last time: I really wish she had more fiction stuff on the go.
Brilliant - one of my favourite writers and always guaranteed to make you laugh. Witty and clever in the extreme.
Dont you want me October 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book it was sooo funny that i was laughing out loud .I really recommend it its a right funny, girlie book with a good ending :)
Laugh out loud funny May 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Funny laugh out loud book, well written easy to read and would highly recommend. I ached with laughing so hard before I had read the first chapter. This lady is seriously funny. If you want intellectual skip it if you funny must read and pass it on.
funny easy read! June 16, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you read this book as light hearted chick lit and lots of humour then you won't be dissappointed!! I laughed out loud a few times and I am one of those grouchbags that gets annoyed when people laugh hysterically at stupid parts in the cinema!! Its not a book that I must have on my bookshelf but one of those that I quickly passed onto a friend to do the rounds!
Hilarious!!! February 28, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I found this book lying around the office and was bored so read it,and was suprised to find that I LOVED it, it was hilarious - laugh out loud funny, and I would recommend it to anyone as a light hearted quick read.True its obvious whats going to happen, but arent all these books? Seriously funny though,this is not my genre at all so I was very suprised when I couldnt put it down. Read it!!
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