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My Life on a Plate [ MY LIFE ON A PLATE ] By Knight, India ( Author )Aug-23-2001 Paperback
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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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- PublisherPENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0141000937
- ISBN 13 9780141000930
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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