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| My Life on a Plate | 
 enlarge | Author: India Knight
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Category: Book
List Price: £13.68
Buy Used: £1.33
You Save: £12.35 (90%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 1843915
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0618093974
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.82
UPC: 046442093972
EAN: 9780618093977
ASIN: 0618093974
Publication Date: November 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Everyones life on a plate. May 5, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a great book, exceptionally funny and easy to read. I had tears rolling down my face on more than one occasion.
Would recommend this book to anyone with a sense of humour, yes it can be a little close to the bone and if you dont like that dont read.
Need a laugh, curl up on the sofa with glass of wine and this book.
 Shallow and juvenile November 11, 2005
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you think bodily functions and domestic squalor are funny, this book will make you laugh. It belongs to a particular school of English women's writing that has flourished at least since I became an adult. It's nothing new. If only it would become old. After a few pages, I left the central character to her smelly hamster cage and her bottle of chardonnay (opened at teatime and consumed before dinner).
 Bridget Jones meets Desperate Housewives May 9, 2005
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this book because there where so many positive reviews on the Amazon home page (and beacuse it was one of the 3 for 12), and begun reading with great expectations. The book is an easy read, maybe suitable for a day at the beach, but frankly: I got a bit disappointed. The book was not as funny as I anticipated, neither was the story so good. The characters are very unidimensional and shallow - Bridget Jones seems like an intellectual in comparison. All this aside - I had a few laughs and finished the book in 3 days, in between caring for my three children and their friends. Actually, when reading about the lives of british mothers, I find myself quite happy that I got my children in Norway where it is actually possible to have both a family and a career.
Funny! April 11, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. Not a life altering read but not suppossed to be. A witty little novel with fantastic characters. I actually found myself being able to normalise some of my strange behaviours! I love the fact that the main character, Clara is so utterly flawed like most of us but so ready to admit it - I want her as a friend!! It has a kind of english eccentricity that charmed me completely. My boyfriend decided he had to read it when he heard me laughing so much and he doesn't do fiction!
A great read but it has its flaws... July 12, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
OK, I agree with most of the comments in the previous reviews so won't repeat them. But to sum up:Negatives: Another story based in London; another heroine bored of her (cushty) life; more label-obsessed, somewhat shallow characters; an impossibly implausible ending. Yawn. Positives: It is written by India Knight who is possibly the best columnist around at the moment; it is side-splittingly funny yet heart-renderingly sad; it portrays an interesting snapshot of a dysfunctional marriage; the heroine is ballsy and 'quite bad' at times, and for once she is not a simpering/ chardonnay-swilling/ working-for-an-ad-agency girl waiting for her Price Charming.
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