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Mutton

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?

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

About India Knight

India Knight is the author of four novels: Darling, Mutton, Comfort and Joy, Don't You Want Me? and My Life on a Plate. Her most recent book is India Knight's Beauty Edit. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and author of the Substack newsletter Home. She lives in Suffolk.
Details
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241955048
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 219g
  • Price: £15.99
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