Sex. There's a lot of it about. And Stella is definitely not getting her fair share. She's got a few handicaps: she's the wrong side of thirty, she's a single mum (to the adorable Honey), and her French hot-bloodedness is liable to turn grown men pale. Mind you, the men she meets are either perma-tanned, tight-trousered smoothies with strangely white teeth or - easy, tiger - balding, poorly socialized podgers. One lot have black satin sheets; the other lot have, well, wives. What's a girl to do? Dividing her time between London's most PC playgroup (most popular children's names: Ichabod and Perdita) and lessons on the art of pulling from housemate Frank, Stella is seriously starting to wonder if she'll ever have sex again.
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India Knight busted the happy-ever-after cliché 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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Miles funnier and ruder than anything else of its kind (Evening Standard )
Delicious cleverness and funniness . . . slips down as easily as strawberry soufflé (Sunday Telegraph )
Fabulously funny . . . ace (Heat ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Delicious cleverness and funniness . . . slips down as easily as strawberry soufflé (Sunday Telegraph )
Fabulously funny . . . ace (Heat ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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By Village Seed
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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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By K. Wilson
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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!
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Estella de la Croix (Stella) is seriously wondering whether she will ever have sex again! Twice divorced and single mother to the twinkly and adorable toddler, Honey, Stella is a red-hot, half-French sex-(time)bomb, desperately looking for someone with whom she can safely detonate! And being the maturer side of thirty (as opposed to the more immature!), anything goes!
Stella's unorthodox search for someone to scratch her increasing libidinous itch (which in itself include a strange but open account of recreational drug use and the consumption of vast quantities of alcohol) leads to an ill-advised forray between the black satin sheets of an elderly plastic surgeon, so permatanned is he, that he may very well have been Tangoed (not only but also, he is the perpetrator of some seriously buttock-clenching chat up lines that will make you roll about with glee) and later to a liaison with a "World's-Oldest-Teenager" DJ, closer to forty than she is, but more firmly in denial.
The meanderings of the plot are a distraction from the basic humour - surely it should be the other way around? Nevertheless, I bought this book because I loved My Life On A Plate (which had basically no plot at all, but was hurtingly funny and made me cry with laughter, once more on a packed commuter train) and I hoped that Don't You Want Me would be as funny. I was not disappointed.
Stella's rant through gritted teeth as she listens through the walls, once more, to her Lothario lodger (Frank, the ginger-haired artist) getting it on with what surely must be a howler monkey, had me bent double with mirth.
I enjoyed the "story", more so the characters (Stella's father is Great, with a capital "G") and even more so the humour. The chapters that include the Politically Correct nursery "Happy Bunnies" may, whilst reading, require the use of an oxygen tent.
Does our heroine find the Studly Dudley of her dreams? Well if I tell you that, there's really no point in buying it.
Once more and in the same vein as My Life On A Plate, India Knight manages to extract the Michael in a way that we can all relate to; even if the majority of single-mothers who might read this book aren't independently wealthy, swathed in cashmere, living in an airy house in Primrose Hill and able to afford the luxury of lying in bed with a killer hangover whilst the "staff" look after the baby.
If you ask me to sum it up, I would have to say that I love nothing more than an overdose of clever wit, and India Knight provides it in spades.
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Frivolous but fun
We read this as a group. Half of the group loved it half thought it rather predictable and not as good as her newspaper columns.
Published 5 months ago by Mrs. S. Mitchell
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Book Review: Don't You Want Me? - India Knight
To be honest, I was starting to get a bit fed up with chick lit because it can be very hit and miss. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Booketta
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Hilarious feel good read.
I read this book on holiday & have since purchased it for my friends to read.
For any single women over 30 who have had a bit of 'single' fun, this book will have you rolling... Read more
For any single women over 30 who have had a bit of 'single' fun, this book will have you rolling... Read more
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Utterly hilarious
I wanted something to make me laugh and this was certainly the book to do it. The acutely accurate descriptions of life as a single mother in your thirties is spot on. Read more
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Love love love it...wickedly hilarious and such a fun read. Had me giggling all the way through. She is sooo good.. a real pick me up if you are down. Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Charlton
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Okay
Having enjoyed 'My life on a plate' immensely, and being a huge fan of India Knight's columns, I looked forward to this. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Zara
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Not a bad read for a bit of relaxation
All in all a good read, some laugh out loud moments. Well worth reading if not wanting to work too hard. Perfect holiday reading.
Published on 21 Feb 2011 by SueF
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This book is amusing and witty, I enjoy India Knight's writing style and although the book is somewhat predictable it is an amusing read. Read more
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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... Read more
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Dont you want me
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 :)
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