Hating shopping is a terrible accident. It happens to people who've never shopped properly and allow one bad experience to contaminate and sully the rest of their shopping life. It is extremely sad a) because it just is and b) because we all have to shop, whether we like it or not. So we may as well like it.
Some people, the author included, love shopping so much that even the weekly trawl around Waitrose is a treat.
In this essential guide-cum-memoir, India Knight dissects the singular pleasures afforded by everyone's favourite pastime: from dragging your mother around Topshop aged fourteen to feeling your entire life would somehow be perfect if only you bought that battered leather sofa to - inevitably - shopping for food.
Part series of essays, part lists of essential information, you will never wonder about where to get the perfect 2-inches-off-the-waist paints again.
