My Life on a Plate - India Knight

India Knight is a columist for the Sunday Times I have now learnt, however I bought this book for the fact that I loved the cover with its wacky image of all these random cartoony images like kids toys, lipsticks, calpol and chocolates on a big plate. Rarely am I influenced completely by the front cover, but this book looked fun from the start. Upon reading this book I was not at all disappointed either, I loved it from start until finish. It tells of Clara Hutt (aka Jabba the) and her life now she has a seemingly fantastic life with a good career, nice house, attractive husband who actually works in fashion and enjoys talking clothes (where can I find one??) ...

I had wanted to read this book for a while, ever since I heard India interviewed on radio 4 (on ou way back from France), and there was also a piece about her wardrobe (contents of) in Marie Claire. I could just so identify with the main character of the book, Clara. Married, 30's, kids, georgous husband, size 16 etc.etc; but still not satisfied. Apart from some really funny bits (paticularly when describing a visiting toddler) it didn't really draw me in, until near the end. Some bits were so dull and slow (like real life, actually!) I could put it down and forget about it for days, without any urge to pick it back up. ...

I was drawn to this book as I regularly read India Knight's columns in The Times. This is a very easy to read book which deals with the day to day life of Clara Hutt. Clara has a nice house, two cute children and a part-time job. This is in reality an ordinary tale of most women who feel they are stuck in a rut, who want more from their lives and spend time feeling paranoid about getting larger less sexy etc! The book has some great parts which will almost make you weep with laughter(when after spending a harrassing morning getting kids ready for school she arrives at the school gate without realising she still has her pyjama bottoms on) and some ...