Mutton: live webchat with India Knight Tues 24 Sept 12-1pm

Hello! I'm intrigued about your 'relationship' with Liz Jones. I'm not a big fan of her columns. I read somewhere that you worked with her at Mirabella. Has she always been so reckless with her friendships and ready to spill the beans?

Hello India - I really enjoyed the book too. From the title I was expecting more on the whole ageing thing and less on the family relationships. This is absolutely not a criticism - just curious about how you came up with the title (do you choose them or does your publisher?)

Hi India. What was all the hoo-hah about with MK Hajdin?

Hello India, I wondered what your writing routine is and where you write-if in public did you end up burssting out laughing at what you were writing? Think I would have. Oh, and what are you reading at the moment

Are you as cool a mother as the ones in your books?

Thank you for the book - lots of laugh out loud moments when I was reading it on the tube.

I'm irritated by celebrities and national treasures who swear that they've not had cosmetic surgery, but would consider should it ever be needed (who are they kidding!)

India, what sort of grandma is your own mother?

Sorry this isn't actually about the book but I saw your photo on the home page and was very taken with your hair. How do you get it like that?

Hi India I enjoyed the book too. I especially liked Bernard. Are you into all that fantasy stuff or was this just a mickey take of people who are?

Thanks GN for my copy. India I really laughed aloud at or with the characters and I wondered did they develop a "life" of their own as you got more familiar with them. Did you have to rein them in at all? At sixty five I must admit to being too scared to go down the filler and teeth route when I see some of the terrifying results but it was so entertaining to read your characters encounters. Thanks for a great holiday read

Thanks for the book Gransnet, I took it on holiday and enjoyed it. It afforded several 'laugh out loud moments', perfect holiday reading.
Anyone contemplating botox needs to read your novel, India. I remember someone describing a ball, held at the White House in Nancy Regan's day,
as a masked ball (so many over-lifted faces!).
What would you advise for a cottage -loaf tummy, crinkly thighs and sparse eyebrows? Or should I wear loose clothes and large sunglasses?

India Knight, sorry haven't read your book, but in one of your recent articles, I think in the Sunday Times, you sang the praises of a product called Colour Wow, root touch up kit. I bought one of these recently from Space NK and can honestly say it's brilliant. Thank you for that! Wouldn't be without it now super easy to apply for those missed bits when I do my roots. Great for taking away it looks like block mascara and fits in a make up bag without any difficulty. Will look out for your book.

Thanks GN for the book. I liked it very much especially the bit set in Scotland (Muck?)
India please tell me you actually did this journey to research it? It made me laugh out loud (I have been in a similar situation so the laughing was part empathy part hilarity)

I loved the book. I haven't read any of your others yet but now I definitely will. Are there any more about these characters or do you always write about different people?

Have you had botox? And if not would you?

A good, light-hearted and thought- provoking read! Some bits made me laugh out loud - India, you are definitely writing about dome of my acquaintances!

Thanks for the book GN - it is a good light read and very enjoyable.

India - did you base the any of the characters in the book on how you feel in your forties?

Hi India and GNHQ, thank you for the book, I really enjoyed it.
I live in a bourgeois-bohemian neighbourhood, so I recognised the huge jewellery with the ethnic spin. :-)
Hi India, I would love to know how you go about your writing. Is there a strict timetable? (I'm thinking of those accounts you read in the Sunday mags, I wake at 5, write until noon, have a small dish of watercress salad and then write until midnight.) Thanks..x

Thanks very much for the book...it came just as I was leaving for the airport...a great holiday read !
I'm looking forward to reading more of India's books.
My question for India is :-
When you were talking to women who have had Botox and other "work" on their face, did you find that they were pleased with the result..or have they any regrets ?

How lovely to have a book that makes me laugh out loud... going through some problems at the moment ...so a blessed release , thank you so much, although get some strange looks from hubby , when I am sat there smiling ... book in hand. Thank you India very enjoyable.... also a big thankyou to Gransnet x

I don't understand the "American" teeth reference in the OP... What's the story behind that India?

Thanks for the book, just started to read it and enjoying it so far. It's good to read something that makes you smile.