My Life on a Plate [Paperback]

Optioned for film and published in sixteen countries, this British sensation explodes the myth that all people need to be truly happy is love and marriage. Meet thirty-three-year-old Clara Hutt: irreverent, sometimes unkind, always self-deprecating. Clara is a part-time magazine writer with a perpetually mysterious husband and two small boys, and some days she wakes up with the feeling that her life isn't all it should be. Her extended stepfamily is forever making demands; her sons are constantly murdering each other ; all the other mothers at the school gate are perfectly groomed, but Clara is in her pajama bottoms and her husband's sweater.
With razor-sharp wit and a healthy dose of insight into married life, India Knight takes readers on a continually entertaining ride through one woman's bumpy search for fulfillment.US

a jaunty, post-feminist fairy tale... Boston Globe

An enormously charming, often scabrously funny first novel . . . The irrepressible Clara is also irresistible: as she deconstructs and reconstructs herself endlessly, there are insights aplenty about making do, holding on, and letting go.” Kirkus Reviews

“Witty and raucous . . . entertains while animating many of the common misconceptions people have about marriage. Publishers Weekly

“Witty commentary on middle-class mores and humor make this . . . novel an enjoyable read.” Library Journal

At once realistic and hopeful.” Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review

“A wickedly funny and painfully honest comic novel. It comforts those of us who have experienced the misery of marital desertion and an infestation of headlice. It's a triumph. I intend to buy it for everybody I love.”—Sue Townsend, author of The Adrian Mole Diaries

“Well-written, neatly constructed and . . . funny . . . Like her creator, Clara has a talent for seeing the farcically tragic in all that surrounds her.”—The Guardian (UK)

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