- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin UK; First Edition edition (May 2 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140297405
- ISBN-13: 978-0140297409
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,206,080 in Books (See Top 100 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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Miles funnier and ruder than anything else of its kind Evening Standard Delicious cleverness and funniness ... slips down as easily as strawberry souffle Sunday Telegraph Fabulously funny ... ace Heat
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't You Want Me,
By TC from Brampton "Reader from Brampton" (Great White North) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dont You Want Me (Paperback)
Very good book. Really enjoyed and can't wait until her next novel comes out.
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Not as good as My Life On A Plate,
By RobynB - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Dont You Want Me (Paperback)
Don't You Want Me is cute, predictable, and has some funny moments, but it's not outrageous laugh-out-loud funny like My Life On A Plate. I enjoyed it, but was a little disappointed.
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laugh out loud funny.,
By T. Egan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dont You Want Me (Paperback)
I read this book in 3 days and it made me laugh so much I cried. About a single mum living in a large house and has a lodger who seems, well.... a bit of a jack the lad. Stella watches Frank (the lodger) having some undetached fun and also wants a bit of the action. I would describe this novel as a very modern love story. Scene with Stella and her past love making catching up with her is priceless.
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Hysterically funny!,
By Aubrey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dont You Want Me (Paperback)
I picked up this book in Greece a few years ago and I couldn't wait for it to be availabe to buy in the states! It is hysterical. Stella is the most likeable character I have read in a long time. I have bought copies for all my friends and it is everyone's favorite book.
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