We worship India Knight (well, just a little bit, anyway). Although we have our fingers firmly on the pulse of the beauty world, she still nevertheless sleuths out products for her Sunday Times Style column that we’d never have known about, and her beauty recommendation has prompted many a Sunday morning purchase.

She’s also, like us, of un certain âge. She understands menopausal hair challenges, the way make-up doesn’t work the way it used to (but is still your best friend), and she knows what to invest in and where to scrimp, satisfyingly.

We are gratified that many of the products feautred in India Knight’s Beauty Edit (sub-titled: ‘What Works When You’re Older’) are actually Beauty Bible Award winners, or products we’ve featured as ‘Beauty Bible Loves…’, but when the parcel containing the book thumped onto our desks, there were several new finds in there that we’re confidently looking forward to trying (notably Emma Lewisham Illuminating Oil Cleanser, and the Hershesons body-building hair product). Along with several old favourites that we’re always happy to have topped up: Nursem hand cream, Bioderma Sensibio micellar water (THE best cheapo micellar water), and a Trinny London cream eyeshadow, for the stack.

It’s India’s style which we just love, love, love. (Also to be recommended, her novel Darling, which is a completely brilliant, not to mention brave, reimagining of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love.) India writes like your best friend – your very witty best friend – is chatting to you, and, like us, she only recommends what she absolutely, 100% believes in, unswayed by advertisers. (We long ago cut our noses off to spite our face by not taking ads on this website, but we’ve got the warm rose glow of our integrity to make up for it!)

We would also point you in the direction of India’s HOME by India Knight newsletter on Substack, if you feel the way we do about her writing, which is mostly about recipes and cooking stuff, but veered into a great Christmas shopping guide last week. It’s basically the stuff India rates, and invariably, so do we. (We have mixed feelings about Substack, the newsletter platform, because if we’re not careful we’ll just end up with a cyberspace equivalent of the teetering, unread magazine pile by the bed. But hers is absolutely worth subscribing to, and we happily pay to do that.)

Wherever you find her writing – Style, Substack or this great little book – we’ve a hunch you love it, too. And if perchance you haven’t discovered India – as it were? Oh, the treats in store.

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