A funny novel about marriage and family life follows thirty-three-year-old Clara Hutt, a "plus size" woman, on her epic search for happiness and fulfillment. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author:
India Knight used to write a weekly column in the Observer Life section, and is a regular contributor to a number of magazines and newspapers. My Life on a Plate is her first novel.
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My Doris Day streak has come skipping and ginghaming its way to the
fore in recent days . . . It"s what happens when your immediate
family is a convoluted mass of divorce and fragmentation. At the end,
deep down, you want to be the one to break the pattern . . . The
Doris streak . . . makes me want to be neat and nuclear; sometimes it
even makes me think that I wouldn"t mind being suburban.And,
obviously, the Doris streak is often at odds with the rest of me, or
at least with the parts that smoke and drink and occasionally spend a
happy half-hour drying the dishes absent-mindedly while wondering
what it would be like to snog strange people who really, really
fancied you and were groaning with desire at the thought of kissing
you. If they existed. And one knew them. Hypothetically.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0618093974
- ISBN 13 9780618093977
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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