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India Knight's pink palace: at home with the authorThe tragedy for novelist India Knight is that Kinky Pink paint is out of production. Katie Law visits her Chalk Farm home

• Knight is very house-proud, while being more comfortable with mess than a minimalist décor
• India Knight has been painting kitchens for 20 years, always the same colour - John Oliver's Kinky Pink, now sadly discontinued
• There are prints and paintings on every wall and objects on every surface

'I like the glow pink gives and I like it to get up to in the morning. People look good in its light, it's flattering'

mouvementeNever knowingly understated, Knight has "gone off" department stores now that every table and shelf is crammed with objectsThe pink décor adored by Knight's seven-year-old daughter Nell. The author's two teenage sons have known nothing elseComfort And Joy, by India Knight, Penguin, £7.99Photographs by Simon Maxwell