Mutton
  • Published: 21 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241955048
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $26.00

Mutton

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21 Aug 2013
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The fourth novel from India Knight is a hilarious, heartfelt exploration of women's relationship with their looks

Clara Hutt is forty-six years old, and in pretty good nick, considering. She has kick-ass underwear, a large and loving family, and a healthy sense of what matters in life. Until Gaby moves in.

Gaby's an old school friend of Clara's who has just returned from LA. She may be a yoga mogul who lives off kale, and speaks a made-up fantasy novel language, but Gaby's no stranger to cosmetic surgery: she's almost fifty, but looks thirty-six at most.

What with Gaby, and Clara's son's leggy girlfriend, Sky, wafting around the house in her stripy pants, Clara starts to wonder if a little Botox, a little filler, a nip and a tuck, would be so very wrong. Should she ignore the fear? Or is there another way to grow old gracefully - and how far is she prepared to go to find out?
  • Published: 21 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241955048
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for Mutton

Every so often you will hit a line so funny and true it will make you gasp out loud . . . sharp and bracing as a Claridges martini

Jenny Colgan, Daily Telegraph

Had me choking with laughter . . . Knight has pulled off a clever trick here. With humour and wit, she's addressed the serious subject of how to swallow the bitter pill of ageing not necessarily gracefully

Evening Standard

The glorious fourth novel from Sunday Times columnist India Knight . . . An honest, funny book about the complexities of middle age and a reminder that life is for living, with passion and gusto, whatever your age

Hello!

A very funny exploration of ageing written with the author's trademark wit

Sunday Mirror

The funniest novel about the female midlife crisis

The Times

Breathless, ­colourful, hilarious and honest

Daily Mail