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by India Knight (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (2 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140297405
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140297409
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 136,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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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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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute gem., 24 Oct 2004
After reading 'My life on a plate' and enjoying it very much, I was thrilled to discover India Knights new book 'Don't you want me'.

Personally I think its a fantastic book and a riot from start to finish. I actually prefer it to 'My life on a plate' although that is still in my top ten of favourite books.
This is the book I pick up when I am feeling low and need cheering up or I am worried about something and need to escape. It never fails to have me laughing out loud straight away.

As a not very well off, single mother of two, I can understand why some would find it too convenient for Stella to have a house and money and babysitter on hand, this wasnt a problem for me. It is after all an uplifting story, if I had read about how broke Stella was and how she cried into her pillow on a night from loneliness, it wouldnt be the escapism or funny kind of book I was hoping for.
And although like a lot of readers I guessed the ending, it didnt detract anything from this absolute gem of a novel.

Stella is a real scream. From her blatent honesty, to her fabulous dress sense, to her incredibly bad taste in men, she is the kind of person I would love to be best friends with.

India Knight captures perfectly, things most of us think but would never dare say.
Well worth reading and well worth keeping a copy on hand for those 'feeling low' emergencies'

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!!!, 28 Feb 2005
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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down - WOW!!, 10 Oct 2003
This book was a gift and to be quite honest I wasn't really looking forward to reading it. I'm normally a Science Fiction kind of gal and so when handed this I just shrugged. How can one person be so wrong? I had read it within two days and was actually disappointed to find I'd finished. It's absolutely hilarious! Whomever wrote the review I've just read, saying how appalled she was with this piece, must be a prude. This book is meant to be outrageous and funny and of course it talks about sex alot - it's refreshing to read something that doesn't need action, thrills and adventure to keep its audience interested to the last full stop. Besides it would have been quite dull otherwise! This single mother's antics are wonderfully entertaining and I whole heartedly recommend the book to others!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dont you want me
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
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3.0 out of 5 stars fun and funny - could be better
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I loved her articles in the Sunday Times, she was the reason I bought it all the time. I don`t agree with her in everything, but by god is she a fabulous writer! Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sex Bomb, Sex Bomb, She's A Sex (Time) Bomb
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